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Three years ago I was as great a sufferer as lived; now I scarcely know what suffering is. I was never considered strong from a child.

By loyalty in students I mean this,—allegiance to God, subordination of the human to the divine, steadfast justice, and strict adherence to divine Truth and Love. Retrospection and Introspection, by Mary Baker G.

Several most important discoveries have just been made in Cairo bearing upon the history of the Christian Church in the first two centuries of the era. Among them is a manuscript from the fifth century which is a Coptic translation of three original gnostic writings of the second century.

Perhaps the first thing which the beginner in Christian Science has impressed upon him is the necessity of work. Not play-work; not spasmodic efforts, but, in the words of Mrs.

For the first time since I have known Christian Science, there comes to me now a strong prompting to write my experience. It may not seem a wonderful one to others, but to me it is marvelous.

It would be difficult to find a more concise, and at the same time comprehensive, statement of the teachings of Christian Science, and the aspirations of Christian Scientists, than is found in these four concluding words of Isaiah, 60:19 . What does it mean that our God should be our Glory? Jesus tells us to glorify God, or to do all to the Glory of God, and the Bible is full of allusions to God's glory.

The objection is seriously made against Christian Science that it insists that the universe, including man, is not seen or understood by mortals as it really is. This objection is not only made by the materialist and the atheist, but by ministers of the Christian churches; and the protests of the latter are even more vehement than those of the former.

Listen to the story of a simple shepherd, given in his own words:— "I forget now who it was that once said to me, 'Jean Baptiste, you are very poor?'—True. —'If you fell ill, your wife and children would be destitute?'—True.

In standing here to-day to speak to this large assemblage of earnest men and women on the subject of Christian Science, I should be overwhelmed by the greatness of the task assumed did I not know that the simplest utterances of Truth have behind them such infinite depths of reality that thought needs but be touched and awakened in order to perceive that all Truth, understood, is self-evident; and the task becomes a joy through knowing that at every one of these lectures burdens are lifted from weary hearts, and many are led to accept the healing power of the Christ-Truth.   In one of Mrs.

We commend to all Christian Scientists the well-known saying, "Silence is golden. " Our ways should be through the paths of tranquillity.