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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.

POPE'S maxim, "Order is Heaven's first law," has become so familiar as to be almost a platitude, but it is surprising to see how little its absolute truth is realized in the affairs of individuals or of nations, and it would be interesting to know if Pope himself recognized how strictly his statement is in keeping with Biblical teaching. Can there be anything more calculated to bring a sense of perfect order to the human mind than the wonder of a starlit night? As the eye travels over the panorama of stars and planets spread out in what seems to be an infinite array, and we realize that beyond are millions upon millions of other worlds, other suns, other planets, whose distances are measured in such numbers that finite sense reels in the attempt to grasp them, we can but be overwhelmed by the calm, the quiet, the majesty, the unbroken order of that vast multitude "moving in the harmony of Science" (Science and Health, p.

THE persistent efforts put forth in certain quarters to bring discredit upon Christian Science, naturally suggest the question, If Christian Science does not correctly interpret the Truth of Being, by which men are made free, what does? Under equal conditions and opportunity, what other teaching brings greater good into the experience of its believers? Truth should be known by the liberty it confers, not by its acquiescence with human beliefs and prejudices. If Christian Science is not true, then that which is should be found doing greater works in the healing of the sicknesses and sins, the sorrows and sufferings of mortals.