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It is sometimes argued by those who misunderstand the teachings of our text-book, that Christian Science is not the truth, because it rests upon and proceeds from no fixed, underlying basis. Christian Scientists, on the other hand, contend that Christian Science is the truth and that it rests upon and proceeds from demonstrable Principle, and therefore answers the question, What is Truth? It may be well therefore to show wherein the answer of Christian Science to this question differs from that of all others.

In Science and Health we read, "The destruction of sin is the divine method of pardon; divine Life destroys death, Truth destroys error, and Love destroys hate. Being destroyed, sin needs no other form of forgiveness.

The following valuable report was made by William B. Johnson, C.

A pleasure is often enhanced by the unexpectedness of its coming, and this was surely true with regard to the opportunity to visit Concord and see the well-nigh completed church. Our Leader's gracious invitation was read at the close of each of the Communion services, and at half past eight Monday morning special trains began to deport the very large number who responded.

The Communion Service of the Mother Church, which was held Sunday, June 12, will be remembered by all who participated in it as impressively harmonious and helpful. The day was a perfect one, and although no general invitation had been issued and it was understood that a large gathering was not expected this year, nevertheless every part of the auditorium was crowded with eager and expectant worshipers at each of the three services.

" Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free. " What is this truth, from what are we to be freed, and what is it to know the truth? In thinking upon these questions it is clear that a thing must be, before it can be known.

Æsop's fable of "the lion and the bulls" affords a most profitable and timely lesson for Christian Scientists. The fable reads, "Three bulls fed in a field together in the greatest peace and amity.

The Christian Science movement has attained to the dignity of a large and rapidly growing denomination. It has enlisted the interest of individuals who possess average discriminating intelligence and who have been convinced by undeniable facts,—the good results of this faith.

Science and Health says, on page 424, "Seek to be alone with God and the sick while treating the cases confided to your care. " If Christ's disciples can always feel sure that cases confided to their care are really given them of God, they will not be burdened with a sense of their own responsibility or limit themselves in proving that "with God all things are possible," while striving, watching, and praying for that mind to be in them which was also in Christ Jesus.

The commonly accepted theory, that man has a dual nature; i. e.