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Among the matchless lessons of our Master we find these words in Matthew, "No man putteth a piece of new cloth unto an old garment; for that which is put in to fill it up taketh from the garment, and the rent is made worse. " And Luke adds "the piece that was taken out of the new agreeth not with the old.

It is now very generally acknowledged that the world's progress is due to the supremacy of Mind. Through the ever-advancing discoveries and modes of Mind in myriad forms of manifestation, the supposed resistance and unkind forces of matter yield to the quiet march of intelligence, until the hour is struck when the human mind begins to discern the great fact of Truth, that not matter but Mind, when understood, is master.

For about four years I have been earnestly trying to climb the ladder of Truth. I confess many times it has seemed hard and I remained on one round a long time, being often obliged to do my work over again, perfecting the mistakes, only to know God better.

HOW true it is, that the understanding of Christian Science enlarges our views on all lines. We now read the Bible with the understanding that each promise is for us individually, here and now, if the required conditions are being fulfilled by us as they should be.

Our Sentinel, upon the watch tower of Truth, informs us that the great need of the hour is individual work. Our Leader tells us the best way to enter upon this important work.

" All consciousness is Mind; and Mind is God,— an infinite, and not a finite consciousness. This consciousness is reflected in individual consciousness, or man, whose source is Infinite Mind" (Unity of Good, by Mary Baker G.

Natural science being the study of matter, of that god which the human mind has set up besides or instead of the only true One. it must naturally be of interest to examine, in the light of Christian Science, to what results this study has led, and which stage of development it has reached in the day when the true nature of Spirit, as the only substance, has been revealed again.

One of the remarkable facts about Christian Science —a fact for which it is difficult to account except on the ground that this doctrine is the exposition of a great truth—is the way in which it appeals to the various phases and conditions of the human mind. To all who are striving to make life more beautiful and better worth the living, Christian Science lends a helping hand and points the way to a higher, broader, and more wholesome view of life and the destiny of man.

" I am Way, the Truth and the Life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me. " What did our Saviour mean when he said these words to his disciples? Could there be but one meaning? that the only way to the Father was by living the life Jesus lived, and following his example in word and deed? Does it mean anything less than it did nineteen hundred years ago? is there any other Way? The answer is found in the Master's own words, "Verily I say unto you, Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law, till all be fulfilled.

As I read the editorial on this text in the June Journal, it came to me, not in the sense of punishment, but of reward; immediately I was lifted out of the region of chronic fear, discouragement, and despair, up into the realm of joy and peace, into the consciousness of the protecting care of an all-wise, all-powerful God of love; and as the babe nestles with perfect confidence in the arms of its mother, so I rested in the arms of Infinite Love. Oh, afflicted mortals! beset on all sides by numberless fears, cast aside your worry and anxiety.