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In the Gospel of Matthew, wherein it is recorded that Jesus addressed the people about him from a hillside in Galilee, the world reads precepts simple and tender in the spirit of their ministration, yet so exalted in ideal that they promise to cut away, in their performance, all the selfish sin of human kind. Among the activities which Jesus defines as blessed by the Father, stands one which speaks great quietness of heart: "Blessed are the peacemakers: for they shall be called the children of God.

It is sometimes said by the critics of Christian Science that it is like Neoplatonism and "Berkeleyism," etc. , but these undemonstrable human theories are very different from it, and a patient study of Christian Science enables one to perceive in what way they differ.

Dr. Johnson was doubtless right when he said, "Every man has something to do which he neglects; every man has faults to conquer which he delays to combat.

The question of questions to mankind —the problem which underlies all others, and is more deeply interesting than any other —is the ascertainment of the place which man occupies in nature, and of his relation to the universe of things. Whence has our race come? what are the limits of our power over nature, and of nature's power over us? to what good are we tending? — these are the problems which present themselves anew and with undiminished interest to every man born into the world.

The one thing that has been accepted by mankind at large, and held as inevitable, is death. Death has not only been regarded as unavoidable, but it has been given the sacredness of a divine decree.

THE story of the healing of Naaman from leprosy, besides the very obvious lesson of the necessity for humility, presents one or two points of special interest to the Christian Scientist; for from it we learn that the human mind was the same in far-away lands and bygone ages as it is in our midst to-day; and that antagonism to any message of Truth which does not come in expected ways, or fit in with preconceived ideas, has always been, as it is now, one of its phases. That "it is the unexpected which happens" is a well-known saying; and the history of God's revelation of Himself to mankind seems to justify it, for it is certainly true that such revelation has invariably come through most unexpected channels.

In the legend of "King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table" it is said that Arthur was a mere babe when his father died, and being surrounded by enemies, to ensure his safety he was hidden away; so that many thought the babe had died. The country was devastated by wars, murders, and robberies, and no man's life was safe from his enemies.

Try so to live in the light of God's love that it becomes a second nature to you, tolerate nothing adverse to it, be continually striving to please Him in all things; resolve firmly never to commit the smallest deliberate fault, and if unhappily you are overtaken by any sin, humble yourself, and rise up speedily. You will not be always thinking of God consciously, but all your thoughts will be ruled by Him, His presence will check useless or evil thoughts, and your heart will be perpetually fixed on Him, ready to do His holy will.

IT is sometimes asked just how we should draw the line between a conscientious Christian Science life and subservience to popular and public opinions. Our Leader tells us "to abandon so fast as practical the material, and to work out the spiritual which determines the outward and actual" (Science and Health, p.

SOME time ago I was requested to give my personal experience, to tell why I am a Christian Scientist,—the same request having been made to different ministers of our city as to the faith or doctrine they advocated. The apostle Peter says, "Be ready always to give an answer to every man that asketh you a reason of the hope that is in you with meekness and fear.