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Whenever a new and higher vision of Truth is proclaimed to the world, human ignorance and prejudice invariably render contemporary impressions regarding its advent and meaning more or less hazy and inaccurate, even as a dense fog causes objects to appear abnormal and indistinct. A righteous estimate of any great spiritualizing movement can be acquired only as the germinal concept from which it springs is distinguished from the incidental and contingent features which appear in the course of its historical development and which constitute its mental and moral environment.

By what authority doest thou these things? and who gave thee this authority?—Matthew, 21:23. It may seem almost superfluous to define so wellknown a word as authority, but since this word has several shades of meaning it may be advisable for the sake of clearness to agree upon those definitions that concern us in this article.

If ye continue in my word, then are ye my disciples indeed. —Jesus.

DURING the last fifty years or more, among Protestant congregations there has come a change of thought regarding pastors and preaching. In former days the sermon was listened to with almost the same reverence as that given to the reading of the Bible, and it was considered that both in his ministry and in his sermon the pastor spoke with authority.

THERE is no knowledge more desirable than a scientific understanding of the spiritual forces which govern man, but up to the time of Mrs. Eddy's discovery of Christian Science in the year 1866, no knowledge seemed less attainable.

OUR debt of gratitude and love to Christianity and its Founder is too great ever" to be adequately paid. Those whose lives have been fullest of good and worthy deeds feel that they have received so much and given so little that their salvation is by divine grace and not by personal merit.

WHEN mortals, in their capacity as individuals or as nations, cease to contend against each other's real interests, and unite in destroying their common enemies, they will bring peace on the earth. When the energy heretofore expended in resenting wrongs by attempting to destroy life shall have been turned into Christianly scientific methods of establishing justice by saving life and healing hate, the era of "good will toward men" will have arrived.

AS offspring of the infinite we are ever in God's presence, but we are conscious of this only as we entertain good and right thoughts. It is insufficient to bask emotionally in the glow of another's good thoughts, or to sit in the intellectual enthralment of the contemplation of great possibilities.

(For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but mighty through God to the pulling down of strong holds;) casting down imaginations, and every high thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ. St.

THERE is but one true system of mathematics, one correct way to add, subtract, multiply, and divide, and that is known to be the true way by its practical, definite, satisfying results. Distances are thus determined, and the exact time calculated when a given point will be reached at a fixed rate of speed; weight and contents are ascertained, quality and values computed, estimates made, and contracts drawn and executed.