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My Beloved Brethren: —The divine might of Truth demands well-doing in order to demonstrate truth, and this not alone in accord with human desire but with spiritual power. St.

Probably every child when he first learns of God thinks of Him in a general way as being an enlarged man up in the sky or away at a distance. Many adult people have not escaped from the habit of thus thinking of God, more or less vaguely, as having a body like the human body, or at least as having a body with definite outlines of some kind.

Christian Science is looked upon by many as no more than an agency for the healing of physical diseases. By the uninformed its claim to be a religion is overlooked.

Every student of the Christian Science text-book, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mrs. Eddy, learns as one of his first lessons that Truth is eternal.

It is now forty years since the Discoverer of Christian Science made known to the world the basic law of Christian healing: forty years in which the world has laughed, then looked, then come to listen. Clashes of learned minds, bitter legislative enactments, personal vituperation have all had their day, but the great work goes on.

In the life and character of Christ Jesus as understood in Christian Science we have a perfect example of complete identification with good. In his teachings we have an explanation of the way this identification was made by him and must be made by us.

[We are glad to publish the following splendid tribute to woman, to her place and achievements in Christian history, and to our Leader's fitness, by virtue of being a woman, as well as by her spiritual attainments, for the great work she has been called upon to do. The value of woman's work and influence is steadily gaining recognition, and it is time that her true place in the realm of moral and spiritual thought should be clearly understood and defined.

Christian Science is as a search-light turned upon individual qualities, motives, and practices. It reveals clearly to all who "having eyes, see," that, broadly speaking, there are two bases of endeavor among men, the spiritual and the material.

The great evil which besets human existence is fear, and too often is mortal man heard to say, in the language of Job "The thing which I greatly feared is come upon me" The child of earth is bound by his fears and knows no way of escape. He never loses sight of the one great fear—the fear of death—which casts a shadow over his whole mortal existence, and, consciously or unconsciously, he is influenced thereby in all that he does.

It has been among the writer's duties to read aloud daily to an audience consisting of busy women, and there has arisen at times a kind of apologetic feeling when the Scripture portion has included the story of Martha and Mary. The superficial thought that Martha was reproved for industry, and Mary commended for inactivity, has no doubt been accompanied by a touch of fear lest a thoughtful listener should ask why she need give so much time to material labor, if Martha was rebuked for it.