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There is perhaps no word in the language which has been less understood or which has excited more controversy than the word miracle. The examination of it, whether from a critical, scientific, or purely historical aspect, seems always to have been capable of arousing the intemperance of superstition or the derision of skepticism.

After the children of Israel left Egypt, forty years elapsed before they entered the Promised Land, and the greater part of this forty years was spent in the wilderness wandering. This wilderness epoch has been recognized and used as an illustration of a certain stage of experience that comes to every individual seeker and finder of Truth.

FROM early childhood until the writer gained some understanding of Christian Science, gleaned from its textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mrs. Eddy, it was always a puzzle to him how the patriarchs and prophets were to be saved, since they had not seen the Christ.

Christian Science teaches that a vociferous appeal to what some seem to think God to be, has no more efficacy in destroying a disease than would a loud cry to the basic law of mathematics have in solving a problem in arithmetic. To help his pupil the teacher must apply his knowledge of this law of numbers by mentally solving the problem in his own thought, and as this solution proceeds in his own mind, he would make visibly manifest on the board his mental concept of the rule and method which necessarily precedes the visible expression.

SINCE the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science "won" her "way to absolute conclusions" (Science and Health, p. 109), nearly half a century ago, and gave the world the result of this experience in the Christian Science text-book, the opinions of eminent physicists regarding matter have suffered a radical transformation.

Only the truth and its expression can establish that new public opinion which will reform the ancient, obsolete, and pernicious order of life. If free men would not rely on that which has no power and is always fettered — upon external aids— but would trust in that which is always powerful and free — the truth and its expression! If only men were boldly and clearly to express the truth already manifest to them of the brotherhood of all nations, and the crime of exclusive devotion to one's own people, defunct, false public opinion would slough off of itself like a dried skin, and the new public opinion would stand forth, which is even now but awaiting that dropping off of the old to put forth manifestly and powerfully its demands and establish new forms of existence in conformity with the consciousness of mankind.

THE night breeze has gathered in its cool embrace the many fragrances of the warm summer day, and wafting them across the meadows, gently filters through the thick foliage of the trees and sinks away toward a sky banked with varied grays. The trees whisper to the wind as they sway in their sleep, and the river underneath the boughs cradles and rocks their sombre reflections slowly to stillness.

Shall it be denied that a system which works according to the Scriptures has Scriptural authority? — Science and Health, p. 342.

IT is inevitable that comparisons should be made between Christian Science and other methods of healing the sick, as well as other forms of religious belief; indeed the religionist and the physician have long been engaged in calling attention to the difference between them. They have not hesitated to contrast Christian Science with creed-orthodoxy and drug-orthodoxy, by means of striking juxtaposition; all, presumably, with the intent of disparaging Christian metaphysics.

There is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus. —Paul THE human mind is deeply stirred to-day with the longing for better things, for honesty, righteousness, freedom; the aspiration for spirituality is abroad in the whole world, and the crumbling of an effete scholastic theology which for centuries has hampered spiritual progress, is one of the pregnant signs of the times.