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The word of the Lord came unto me again, saying, What mean ye, that ye use this proverb concerning the land of Israel, saying, The fathers have eaten sour grapes, and the children's teeth are set on edge? As I live, saith the Lord God ye shall not have occasion any more to use this proverb in Israel.

"Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," the precious text-book given us by one anointed of God to proclaim His Truth to the world, defines "Morning" as "Light; symbol of Truth; revelation and progress" (Page 582). First, the faint dawn that comes to us in the darkness of human belief; then progress, as the understanding of Truth unfolds to our consciousness until the bright morning light is revealed; then the perfect day of divine Love, wherein "No night drops down upon the troubled breast" (Mrs.

From my early childhood days questions of this nature were always coming to me: Is there a God? Where is the being men call God? Where is Jesus, the Son of God? Why does not man receive the help he asks of God in this world of sin, sorrow, and woe? Many such questions were forcing themselves upon my childhood thoughts for a logical, reasonable, and satisfactory answer. I was taught by my parents and in Sunday School that I must believe in God, but my great and longing desire was to know and understand.

A constantly recurring objection against the work and methods of Christian Science is that Scientists charge for their service. This objection is founded upon a twofold fallacy: a fallacy as to fact and as to theory.

It is sometimes asked, If Christian Science be true, why did God wait so long before revealing it? Why were we left in darkness—if indeed it was darkness to suffer, to struggle, and to fail, if it all leads to no result? Why, indeed? Why have innocent children been allowed to die or to suffer for the sins of their parents by worse than death? Why have consecrated saints been tortured physically and mentally by the relentless hands of disease and despair? Why has a loving and a just God permitted it all, standing helpless "at our right hand" or "covering us with his feathers" in vain? Let us consider these things: clearly there is fault. The question is, does it lie with God or with the world? Nearly two thousand years ago in a lowly town of Judæa, a babe of humble parentage was born.

A beautiful flower, when viewed through a defective pane of glass, may appear unsightly. Likewise many a noble character is obscured from us by our own misconceptions.

I have seen some that have set out as if they would drive all the world before them, who yet have, in a few days, died as they in the wilderness, and so never got sight of the promised land. I have seen some that have promised nothing at first setting out to be pilgrims, and who one would have thought could not have lived a day, that have yet proved very good pilgrims.

Material theories insist that life is structural and organic, controlled by bodily or physical conditions, subject to laws of matter,—sin, sickness, and death. Jesus, that great lexicographer of the "new tongue," gave as his definition, "And this is life eternal, that they might know thee, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent.

Professor Herron of Iowa College, at a Monday lecture, November 28, 1898, spoke on "The Conflict of Christ and Christianity. " The speaker said in part:— The religious problem of to-day, which has already waited with over-patience for the Church, is an economic problem; it is not a problem of more churches and church members.

Over a year ago I met with a "belief" of an accident. To a non-believer in our glorious Truth, the preceding assertion of a belief of an accident may seem strange, but I trust that before I have finished relating certain facts, I shall be able to convince you of the truth of the above statement.