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To the Editor of the Herald. In your issue of September 2, while commenting upon the communication of "Uncle Toby," who maintained that honest men and women are above temptation,—and I fully concur with him,—you quote "Lead us not into temptation" as appropriate to the subject.

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SOME who read this may have just begun the study of Christian Science. A few weeks or months ago they knew of it only by name.

THE rise and development within the past century of the "scientific spirit," so-called, represent a tendency the importance of which it would be difficult to overestimate. While the immediate results of this intellectual impetus have been in many respects unsatisfactory, inasmuch as they have appeared, to a majority of students, to warrant, and frequently compel, conclusions which in the light of a more thorough resume of the situation are found to be deduced from unsound premises, nevertheless the pursuit of methods calculated to insure careful, conscientious observation, and accurate tabulation and systematization of the data thereby obtained, has been in the highest degree conducive to a dispelling of the shadows of ignorance and superstition and a preparation of the soil of human consciousness for the reception of clearer views of the truth.

The beginner in Christian Science occasionally finds his past-honored beliefs rising up to rebuke him for having departed from scholastic theology's well-beaten tracks. He should remember, however, that in Christian Science he is being healed by that holy, uplifting faith which is the fulfilment of all that the great theological teachers have hoped and prayed for.

MORTAL man, in his native element of error, may aptly be termed a bundle of wants. From the very hour of his nativity he begins to want something,—everything that gives promise of satisfaction,—and it may be safely affirmed that the mighty discontent of the human race to-day lies in the fact that more time and attention have been paid to the thought of humanity's wants than to its needs.

AMONGST the many aphorisms which Shakespeare gave to the world none is truer than the statement that "The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose. " One need search no farther than the New Testament for an illustration of this, for even our Master was assailed by this form of subtle temptation.

THE human race has cherished no tradition more persistently than that of a Golden Age, a period of primeval innocence and unclouded happiness. The annals of almost all nations and tribes contain references or recollections of this sort, dim perhaps and vague, but carefully nourished as of precious import.

IN the second book of Esdras, one of the Apocryphal writings of the Old Testament, there is found this beautiful prophecy: "For evil shall be put out, and deceit shall be quenched. As for faith, it shall flourish, corruption shall be overcome, and the truth, which hath been so long without fruit, shall be declared.

[ We are glad to give prominence to the following letter to Mrs. Eddy, which we copy from the Concord (N.