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IT would sometimes seem that the worst foe to our harmony is the vexed question, Who shall be the greatest? Heads are sometimes turned by the personal homage humanity gives them. Personally they seem to be connected with demonstrations of Truth: and self-righteousness whispers, "Just see me and what I have done.

THE great care needed to be exercised in giving to learners the true idea of Science, is too often overlooked in our efforts to hasten the progress of humanity in the understanding of Truth. Now, would it not be much better that we hasten our efforts to better understand Truth? We can, in no other way, show our fellow-mortals the blessings which an understanding of Christian Science bestows, than by proving by works instead of words the reality of what we say.

WEBSTER'S definition of loyalty — "The state or quality of being loyal; fidelity to a superior or to duty, love, etc. Loyalty expresses properly that fidelity which one owes according to law, and does not necessarily include that attachment to the royal person" — or personality.

UNTIL we have our understanding enlightened by Christian Science it is impossible to realize how imperative is the commandment "Thou shalt have no other gods before me. " Three years ago I was worshiping false gods; the idol my heart was most wedded to was my home.

WE find in the Bible many references to the "Word. " There is the word of exhortation, the word of prophecy, the word of his grace, the faithful word, and the word fitly spoken, which is said to be like apples of gold in baskets of silver.

Kobe, Japan, June the 31st, 1895. Dear Journal: — After a stay of two years in America, which was preceded by some seven years' absence in a foreign land, we have returned to Japan, guided by the Truth.

WHEN I was quite young I had the measles which settled in my eyes, and for six months I was blind. I was under the treatment of the best oculists, and after six months I recovered the sight of one eye, but not enough to return to school and finish my education or read any at all.

Extracts from a paper on Christian Science written by Dr. Hildegarde H.

ONE evening as the problem of Life was pressing hard upon me, and I was contemplating the awful seeming of the unreal, and trying to catch a glimpse of the real, it seemed to me that a vast ocean rolled before me, and on it were many ships. Some were gaily dressed with streamers flying, and all on board seemed joyous and gay.

I DO not think, of course, that any one has espoused the Cause of Christian Science unless he is teaching and demonstrating that "these signs shall follow them that believe: in my name shall they cast out devils; they shall speak with new tongues; they shall take up serpents; and, if they drink any deadly thing it shall not not hurt them; they shall lay hands on the sick and they shall recover. " To really espouse the Cause of the Science of Christianity means nothing less than a fulfilment of Jesus' last prayer, that all who truly believe, that is, who can grasp and understand the Christ-Mind, shall find that the man of God's creating is one with Christ, even as He is one with the Father.