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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.

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.

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.

Among the many colonial buildings in the City of Mexico is the City Hall, where weekly meetings of the municipal council were held continuously for three hundred and eighty years, until 1903. This building was erected eighty years before the government palace at Santa Fe, New Mexico, the oldest building in the United States, is older by nearly ten years than Jamestown, and twenty-two years the senior of Plymouth.

A wise man will hear, and increase learning. — Proverbs.

Mrs. Eddy, beyond healing sickness, builds "a system," and revives in its fullest sense the religion of the Christ, devoid of theology.

For ages men believed that the earth was the center of the universe. Proceeding upon this assumption, they developed a theory of astronomy, known as the Ptolemaic, which argued that the moon, the sun, the fixed stars, and each of the planets were located in different "crystalline spheres" revolving at different rates of speed around the earth as a center.

For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath mads me free from the law of sin and death. — Paul.

Guard against executing your fellow-men piously. I would prefer that you should execute them brutally, like wild savages, than to see you destroy them under a Christianly guise.

A little incident taught the writer a helpful lesson and made such a deep impression upon him that he will not soon forget it. One morning he looked out of the window and an imposing and inspiring picture greeted the eye.