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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.

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.

Therefore with joy shall ye draw water out of the wells of salvation.

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.

Behind our every experience, back of all we hear and see, lie meanings deeper than are indicated on the surface, as we know; and under the impetus which has come with the light of Christian Science, the thoughts of mortals are being directed, more than ever before, to the reading of these hidden yet ever-open texts. As it is with living beings and their ways, so is it.

Christian Scientists accept the teachings of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mrs. Eddy, because they give the true, demonstrable understanding, of God, and therefore present to mankind the only practicable way out of the discord into which their misconceptions of the Supreme Being and of His creation have engulfed them.

The reason for replying-in detail to objections advanced against the Christian Science movement must be the wish to correct what appear to be certain errors inadvertently admitted into the premises and accepted as the basis of these arguments. Certainly, if the claim of Christian Scientists be true,—that this Science is destined to fulfil the letter, as well as the spirit, of the teaching inculcated by Jesus of Nazareth,—it must be conceded to be the most "stupendous business" that can engage our attention.

Let all things be done decently and in order. —Paul.

In these days of Bible criticism—higher and lower—it is well that there should be at least one to speak whose estimate of the Book of books is based upon actual demonstration of the truths found therein. Christian Scientists do not need to be told what their Leader thinks of the Bible—they find that opinion emphatically expressed in all her works; but the following tribute to the Bible, brought out by Mr.

[ It is a pleasure to give prominence in our columns to the following letter, which emphasizes so clearly and in few words Mrs. Eddy's leadership of the Christian Science movement, and the reasons therefor; the right relationship of Christian Scientists to her, to Science and Health, to the Church Manual, and to The Mother Church of Christ, Scientist, which she has founded "on the rock, Christ.