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I WONDERED sometimes, when I first knew of Science and Health, at what seemed to me to be a strange choice of title, but as I have grown into some understanding of the contents of this marvelous book, I have realized that in this title lies the kernel of the truth of Being, and that it is a concise statement of all that is in the book, and I have come to see that health, and an understanding of true Christian Science are interdependent, and that health, —physical, mental, and spiritual,— is as inevitable a result of Scientific thought as that "if equals be added to equals the result will be equals. " Jesus taught that the knowledge of the truth would make us free, and we understand that any one who grasps the truth in Christian Science, knows this freedom and experiences it in exact proportion to his realization of Truth.

When I began reading Science and Health, I remember how my attention was drawn, constantly, to a statement which said the sick were healed by simply reading this book. That statement printed on the obscure fly leaf, has at last become clear.

IN their first approaches to the subject of Christian Science, many people find themselves baffled and annoyed, if not at times utterly amazed, by the Christian Scientist's evident familiarity with the terms and attributes of Deity, and his repeated attempts at definition of his idea of God. "Sheer impertinence and wholly unprofitable," they say, "are all such efforts to comprehend by definition the Infinite.

Side by side with the demand for physical relief the problem of supply continually presents itself to the Christian Science practitioner, and surely no healing can be a greater to boon to the world than the healing of poverty. Our Leader says, "Hold thought steadfastly to the enduring, the good, and the true, and you will bring these into your experience proportionably to their occupancy of your thoughts"(Science and Health, p.

IN the study of Christian Science we learn that the purely spiritual record of creation is given in the first chapter of Genesis, when God said "Let there be ," and there was, and all was good, and God ended His work. The 4th verse of the 2nd chapter introduces "Lord God" (the Jewish concept of God).

FEAR appears as an assertion of being in opposition to the one great universal essence, divine Love. The Scriptural statements are therefore significant: God is Love.

Wherever we go, or into whatsoever home we enter, from the humble cot to the mansion of luxury, there confronts us now, more than in the past, a general unrest among mankind. Individuals have an indescribable, insatiable, hungering desire for a something they do not possess and cannot grasp, however persistently they may strive to obtain it.

Some one with whom I was talking a short time since remarked, "The one thing I object to in Christian Scientists is that they are too self-satisfied. They always say that everything is all right and do not depend enough upon individual effort.

Before I discerned the light of Christian Science, upon the restless sea of human existence, often I, impatient, made request, in words like these: "Lord God, Thou knowest best how willing I am to do my service well, but how narrow are the bounds wherein I dwell, how straitened is my life, and how small my sphere. I am without a home and without a human tie of any kind.

IF Christian Science were merely theoretical; if it were not applicable to the minutest detail of daily life, then, instead of its marvelous growth, Christian Science would speedily sink into oblivion. But because of its applicability to all phases and conditions of human life; because it brings health to the sick, redemption to the sinner, and peace to the sorely troubled; it appeals to those to whom all other avenues of escape from the ills of earth, seem to be closed.