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We are taught in our text-book, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," that "if God had instituted material laws to govern man, disobedience to which would have made man ill, Jesus would not have disregarded those laws by healing in direct opposition to them and in defiance of all material conditions" (p. 227).

Whenever one has been entertained for a few hours or longer by a friend, he seeks to impress upon the host his gratefulness for the hospitality and good cheer extended to him. In a greater measure do we constantly feel it a duty to express our appreciation of the exceedingly helpful publications of our Church, those welcome visitors which entertain us instead of being entertained by us.

The word theology has lost its charm. The reason for this is clear,—its original meaning was "the thought of God;" but it has wandered far away and some of us have wandered with it.

It is not easy, speedily to bring into the right way the man who has a long time previously been held fast by error. It may, however, be effected; for, when a man turns away ever so little from error, the mention of the truth is acceptable to him.

Not the least of the blessings which attend the study of Christian Science is the improvement wrought in our thought concerning time, that ebb and flow of life, as we have always regarded it. A popular expression such as "the prime of life" will gradually fall into disuse as the understanding of the eternal source of life develops and leavens the materialism of human theory.

" To rejoice evermore" and "in everything give thanks" is, from the human point of view, a well-nigh impossible undertaking. Mortal man is sometimes heard to say that if he had no more to contend with than do most of his acquaintances, it would be a comparatively easy matter for him to rejoice and give thanks.

Critics of Christian Science have sometimes taken exception to the use of the term Science in this connection, on the ground that the adherents of this system refuse to submit its practical operations in the healing of disease to the test of clinical observation and experimentation, conducted in accordance with the requirements of the so-called "laboratory method" of research. That the great bulk of human learning has ever been uncertain and transient will be admitted by every student of the history of thought, for not only have standards of scholarship and criteria of knowledge undergone constant modification, but at intervals they have suffered the most radical and revolutionary departures.

Christ Jesus said that "no man can serve two masters,"and in Science and Health(p. 182) we read that "we cannot obey both physiology and Spirit.

[The interesting article which follows gives the experience of Eldress Anna White and her healing in Christian Science. While it is written from the view-point of herself and her friend, it shows how a sincere desire for the truth leads to the understanding of divine Principle as revealed in "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mrs.

Suppose some of us to be suffering from fatigue, pain, or any inaction or abnormal action of our so called material bodies suppositionally controlled by physical law. Suppose that instead of taking medicine or resorting to any other material remedy, we decide to confine ourselves to the realization of the truth of certain ideas.