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The coming of the Jewish people to Christian Science is a phenomenon whose profound significance is perhaps only half guessed by Christian Scientists themselves. His attention being arrested by the indubitable healing, the avowedly rational Hebrew is irresistibly attracted by the logical perfection of the Science.

A Few years ago I entered an art school in Paris as a beginner, with high hopes and an earnest desire to make rapid progress. About thirty students gathered around the model each day, and worked at drawing or painting with varying degrees of earnestness and from many different motives.

Our Master, Christ Jesus, frequently led his disciples away from the curious, watching, perhaps carping throngs that followed them, and retired with them to the "wilderness," the open, uninhabited land by the sea or among the hills, where, unchecked by scribe and Pharisee, he could freely open up the treasures of the Father's love to those whom he had chosen for himself from among the simple and lowly. Through Christian Science we come to understand what this wilderness means: "Spontaneity of thought and idea; the vestibule wherein a material sense of things disappears, and spiritual sense unfolds the great facts of existence" (Science and Health, p.

We may receive much benefit from simply reading the Lesson-Sermons, but a time will come to each when he must not only read but study them, and then practise each lesson as it is learned. I was teaching a small country school in a foreign settlement, and one morning, a little girl presented me with two needles.

Some time ago my attention was drawn to the statement, "Reputation is not character," and the words made a lasting impression upon me. Many people confuse the one with the other, but there is a vast difference between them.

To those who are trying to make the demonstration over distasteful characteristics of temperament, I would like to tell how I was greatly helped along this line. Only those who have fallen under the law of a quick temper can appreciate or understand the overcoming struggle, and what it means to tone the impulse down, so that the thought of quietness and gentleness may constantly express not only love to God but to mankind.

Eternity , infinity, and unity constitute the three dimensions of the Church or body of Christ. The first element of extension is linear, and as applied to the church suggests the idea of time, without beginning and without end.

Many writers have tried, both by argument and ridicule, to oppose the correctness of Christian Science in its claim that sin, disease, and death are human delusions. I have never known a critic of Christian Science to use the word "delusion" in the same sense that the Christian Scientist does, nor indeed in its true etymological sense.

We have not a notion what an amount of waste of power there has been in our lives; we never measured out the odd corners and the undrained bits, and it never occurred to us what good fruit might be grown in our straggling hedgerows, nor how the shade of our trees has been keeping the sun from the scanty crops. And so, season by season, we shall be sometimes not a little startled, yet always very glad, as we find that bit by bit the Master shows how much more may be made of our ground, how much more He is able to make of it than we did; and we shall be willing to work under Him and do exactly what He points out, even if it comes to cutting down a shady tree or clearing out a ditch full of pretty weeds and wild-flowers.

In the endeavor to express our mental concepts there is often a keen sense of the inadequacy of speech fully to define them. Nevertheless, this does not justify us in manifesting a poverty of expression, or in using that which is ambiguous, obscure, or erroneous.