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Prayer is sometimes used, like the Roman Catholic confessional, to cancel sin. This error impedes religion.

The divinity of these words in St. John's gospel bring to man overwhelming tides of revelation, and the Spirit is a baptismal: "a new commandment I give unto you, that you love one another.

Twenty-one years ago Science and Health was presented to the world, in which God is called by the name Divine Principle. The naming of God as Principle was certainly a new concept.

Dear Journal . —Thinking you might like to hear of the progress of Science in East Los Angeles, I (the Secretary of the society) send you a copy of our first yearly report.

"Christian Science rests on proof not profession. It is not a theory, but a demonstrative system of healing, and it must be supported by proof of its power to heal.

It would be a funny thing if that tangle of occult phenomena variously called mesmerism, hypnotism, thought reading, etc. , should disturb the balance of European politics, but it is not altogether impossible.

The belief that Life is contingent on matter must be met and mastered by Science, before Life can be understood and its harmony obtained. A mother's affection cannot be weaned from her child, because the mother-love includes Purity and Truth, both of which are immortal.

In reading the scriptures carefully, I cannot see that He does. In the first chapter of Genesis we find God's creation complete.

I do not know that you could have written to one who has greater reason for gratitude than I have for I have been lifted out of the abyss in which all was lifeless and when all material supports had failed! But I then learned that with God there are no degrees nor distinction in degrees. Know as a certainty that God is your life; this is absolute; then, with this realization, know that God is not the author of disease.

"I am doing a great work, so that I can not come down; why should the work cease whilst I leave it and come down to you?" To understand fully the circumstances under which the above words were said, it will be necessary to pick up a few threads of history. Nehemiah was one of the captive princes of Judea, carried away to the court of Artaxerxes, the Persian King.