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It is clear to the writer that most of the atheistical doubts and half-doubts which darken the minds of many persons, and which impede the true mission of Christianity very largely, and of the existence of which their possessors are very frequently unconscious, receive their sustenance from the false theological teachings that matter and evil are entities, or real existences. Christian Science by its unanswerable logic destroys this affirmative falsehood.

The tendency of present-day material evolutionists is to identify matter with the manifestation of force. This material sense of force is manifestly not a substance-matter, but a manifestation of mortal mind.

That knowledge is power is a statement whose truth is so obvious that it has passed into a proverb. Every detail that marks the difference between savagery and civilization is an illustration and demonstration of the proposition.

Will those beloved students whose growth is taking in the Ten Commandments and scaling the steep ascent of Christ's Sermon in the Mount, accept profound thanks for their swift messages rejoicing over the Twentieth Century Church Manual? Heaps upon heaps of praise confront me, and for what? That of which I said in my heart, it will never be needed; namely, laws of limitation for a Christian Scientist. "Thy ways are not as ours.

Off the southern coast of Maine are a number of small islands where sheep are kept. The owners of those sheep live mostly on the mainland, and until recent years neither food nor shelter has been provided for their island flocks.

The Christ idea which heals and saves is always active in human behalf, but "the light shineth in darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not. " It is only in the light of Christian Science that we begin to appreciate the vast importance of a fuller, more comprehensive understanding of the word activity.

Faith is a conviction which includes past, present, and future. Faith bases its optimistic hopes for the morrow upon the proven and received blessings of yesterday and to-day.

A Love for nature helps one to understand the many simple and truthful lessons which multiply about the daily pathway, and opens a door through illustration and comparison, much that is of value. As experience enriches individual lives, the simple things of to-day's environment grow deep with meaning, for they bring the quiet assurance that one day, lived in patient obedience to the law of God, is the stepping-stone to another day which must necessarily be blessed and brightened by the faith and endurance of the preceding one.

There is no saying more true than that of the apostle Paul, "Whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap. " This divine law of justice is a promise of heaven to those who do good, as well as a warning that discord and suffering await those who do evil.

There are not yet many Christian Scientists who are such because their ancestors were Scientists before them. Most of us were in time past connected with other denominations toward which we yet hold the kindliest feelings.