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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.

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

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.

After completing college and university courses the writer became a natural scientist by profession and is now in active practice. The training in these sciences has proved invaluable, because it has led him to turn from appearances to realities, and seek causes amid effects, as indictated in the following argument which starts with familiar natural science assumptions.

That Christian Scientists attach to certain words a somewhat different meaning from that generally accepted, is a fact frequently referred to by critics of this movement. Our use of the words Mind, Science, reality, and demonstration, seems to be particularly disagreeable to the ordinary critic, although even a cursory study of these words in any of the standard dictionaries would show the perfect propriety of their use as found in all Christian Science works.

The advance of our Cause in the national capital is of special interest, and the Sentinel has already referred to the acquisition of a new church home by First Church of Christ, Scientist. The opening service, February 28, will mark the beginning of a new era of growth and usefulness.

" Growth is the eternal mandate of Mind" (Science and Health, p. 520).

In the first chapter of John's gospel we read, "All things were made by him; and without him was not anything made that was made. " Here is the emphatic declaration that creation is the work of an infinite, omnipotent Creator, and, like its Creator, it remains perfect, "the same yesterday, and to-day, and forever.

The mortal whose heart never glows with generous affections is a pitiable object indeed. Absorbed in his self-love, his emotions soon become like the petals of a bud which has never unfolded into a flower, has never given forth its fragrance and been painted by the sunshine into beauty, but withers in darkness and perishes in mould.

"I Am sick!" What a statement is this; how many times we use it thoughtlessly! It is brought into service on every conceivable occasion as an excuse for not doing one's duty; for not being kind; for not governing one's self and children aright; for not obeying parents and instructors; for not being where one should be, not doing what one should do, not having what one should have. Not until one is healed through Christian Science does he discover that this is a false statement and make an effort to learn the truth.