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It is calumny on Christian Science to say that man is aroused to thought or action only by ease, pleasure, or recompense. Something higher, nobler, more imperative, impels the impulse of Soul.

IT was house-cleaning time, and furniture and bric-a-brac had been crowded on the porch in order that the new broom might reach every nook and cranny of the cottage home. Soon there was a great commotion in the front yard.

HOW often humanity, in its perplexity and its pain, has questioned thus: Is there a God? and where and what is He? Atheists have replied that there is none; while scholastic theology sometimes teaches that there is a God in heaven who permits evil for a wise purpose. Thus the human heart has cherished within itself atheistic and rebellious thoughts, or else it has cultivated a spirit of resignation to suffering that might legitimately have been avoided.

WE discourse with great glibness upon the achievements of physical science in modern times, and by taking pretty much everything for granted we manage to make ourselves comfortable and avoid many troublesome questions which might otherwise obtrude themselves on our attention in a manner that is neither very soothing to our vanity nor, indeed, very reassuring to our intelligence. To be sure, these questions, or many of them, are as old as reflective thought itself.

ANY forward movement, or one regarded as such by those participating in it, always meets with opposition more or less strenuous, according to its nature and the extent to which it seeks to overturn previously formed beliefs or ideas. In no field of knowledge or experience has this been found to a greater extent than in matters of religious belief and teaching, and in no other has the opposition to any change of or interference with preconceived ideas or beliefs and practices been more intolerant or vicious.

[In response to a request by The Independent, following the unfounded statements as to her illness, Mrs. Eddy has been good enough to send us this article, which we have received in her own handwriting, and which shows none of that tremulous unevenness which often appears in the chirography of a person of her age, she being in her eighty-sixth year.

The story that Mrs. Mary Baker G.

It is often remarked that Christian Scientists frequently quote the 91st Psalm and that they appear to have a marked preference for it. It is true that they find much comfort in this psalm, and the reason seems to be that it contains so much in the nature of a direct and positive message to suffering mortals.

A Young man came to Jesus as he went about doing good, preaching the gospel and healing the sick, and said unto him, "Good Master, what good thing shall I do, that I may have eternal life?" The question indicated that this young man regarded eternal life as something to be attained in the future, and he desired to know of the Master whether, according to his teachings, he had done all that was required of him. He believed that of himself it was possible to do some good thing whereby he might receive, because he deserved, the greatest of blessings.

We have no record that Jesus did any healing works until after his baptism by the Holy Ghost. It is therefore of vital importance for all who desire to follow in his steps, to ascertain what this baptism is, how he obtained it, and how it can be attained to-day.