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Toward the close of one of our Wednesday evening meetings a gentleman rose saying (I give the substance of his remarks, as I remember them): I am a stranger in your city and not a Christian Scientist. I am much impressed by this large attendance on such an oppressively warm evening; also by the evident sincerity and enthusiasm of those who have spoken.

PAUL says, "A little leaven leaveneth the whole lump. " Even a slight understanding of Christian Science changes the thought which we bring to the solution of our problems.

In relating my experience, I know I am telling you nothing new, doubtless you have all heard it before from other sources, yet it will bear repeating, because it is the sweetest story ever told, the story of the prodigal's return, —a son reclaimed, a new tenant in the House of God. My embrace of the teachings of Christian Science was not brought about by the healing of anv of the so-called physical infirmities to which flesh is supposed to be heir.

HAVING been brought up in the Jewish faith, and having come to know something of Christian Science after being bitterly antagonistic to what I thought it was, I am becoming, day by day, more and more convinced of the great good to humanity daily accomplished through the proper understanding of Christian Science, as set forth in its text-book, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker G. Eddy.

CENTURIES ago there was an age which men called the Age of Faith. That age has forever passed, if by faith we mean blind belief.

The understanding that man is God's image and likeness awakens sluggish thought to activity, and gives joy and a realization of his reflection of divine capacity, which confers a power nothing else can. Life is then not simply a sense of existence but a sense of dominion and freedom.

" THE footsteps of thought, as they pass higher from material standpoints, are slow, and portend a long night to the traveler; but the angels of His presence are our guardians in the gloom" (Science and Health, p. 174).

CHRISTIAN SCIENCE based upon the practical application of Jesus' teaching has often been referred to as "a business man's religion," and the reasons for this designation are many. In the matter of time a Christian Scientist gives his business more days per year than he did before, has fewer absences on account of illness and none because of vices.

PERHAPS no word has ever conjured up more inspiring pictures than the word Equality, and none, surely, has been more abused. Poets have sung its praises, philosophers have taught its beauties, and philanthropists have spent themselves in trying to attain to it, and yet at the opening of the twentieth century the ideal of Equality seems to be far from being realized.

LIBERTY is a theme that has occupied the more or less thoughtful attention of philosopher, statesman, politician, and theologian, since the beginning of mortal history. To-day, more than ever before, students of sociology are applying themselves to the solution of problems relating to the inter-dependence of units, in the aggregation called society.