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WILL an appeal, by the afflicted, to the subconscious mind, result in mental or physical harmony? In other words, is the subconscious mind, so called, a healer of disease? Let us examine for a moment this claimant to healing power, and scrutinize more or less closely its credentials. What is the so-called subconscious mind? Assuming for the moment the hypothesis of the academic psychologists, with its classification of mind as the "conscious, the subconscious, and the superconscious," to be "scientific" the subconscious mind must of necessity abide in or be exemplified by the lower strata of consciousness; in other words, in the under, or lower, or imperfect state of consciousness.

THE craving for freedom lies deep in the human heart; it is the goal of our struggle. History is strewed with broken promises of its fulfilment.

JESUS did not begin his ministry, or do any healing works, until after his victory over evil, in what is called his temptations. It is therefore evident that individual victory over temptation, or the demonstration of man's spiritual purity, is the first essential to success, both in preaching the gospel and in healing the sick.

THE word evolution, with which modem science has made us familiar, has undergone such a dramatic reversal of fortunes as to give it almost a romantic flavor. A generation ago it was regarded as having a particularly emphatic irreligious meaning, because it was thought to show that anything like an all-wise creator or a rational purpose in the world was quite unnecessary or doubtful.

IN mercy to mortals, Love's unfoldings of the truth come gradually to the understanding. When the spiritual senses are opened to discern this orderly process, statements of this truth are more easily accepted and assimilated.

PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT this afternoon [April 2] made a short speech to the North Carolina Peace Society, with headquarters at Wilmington, N. C.

FOR many years I have prayed daily that there be no more war, no more barbarous slaughtering of our fellow-beings; prayed that all the peoples on earth and the islands of the sea have one God, one Mind; love God supremely, and love their neighbor as themselves. National disagreements can be, and should be, arbitrated wisely, fairly; and fully settled.

THE "childish things" which Paul tells us he put away when he became a man, certainly did not include the childlike attitude of mind which Jesus declared necessary to the attainment of the kingdom of heaven. We use the words childish and childlike with almost opposite meanings.

THE man was huddled in the gloom of depression, enveloped in the darkness of the room. Internally and externally were depths of darkness; the uselessness of human effort, the feebleness of good, the solidity of evil, the why of it all,— Was the game worth the playing? the race worth the running? Nay! who could say yes? He wearily yet impatiently removed his head from his hands, and flung himself back in his chair.

WE hear many testimonies at the Wednesday evening meetings which tell of the hopelessness of the speakers before coming into Christian Science. It is one of the greatest of the works of Christian Science to restore this lost hope by bringing to the sinful and suffering the understanding that all help is in God, and the knowledge that with such omnipotent help, always and everywhere present, none need be without hope.