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We are told that "Man's extremity is God's opportunity," and Christian Science has often proven that. "The still, small voice" of Truth encompasses the world, and reaches the spiritual sense of man wherever he is.

The fifteenth chapter of Luke is a story of the heart; a story of David, a story which is ever new to us all, for to a large extent it brings to our remembrance many things in our own life. It is a beautiful story; the epitome of a life struggle,—the result of ignorance and inexperience.

When Maine was a district of Massachusetts, Ezekiel Whitman was chosen to represent the district in the Massachusetts legislature. He was an eccentric man, and one of the best lawyers of his time.

That which distinguishes humanity from the animal kingdom is mind and its achievements. Thoughts crystallized into machines, are milestones showing the progress of humanity upward and onward—the triumphs of mind over matter, the discovery of the prerogative of the spirit to have absolute control over the body.

What is it? Ans. —Living in the senses, or for their gratification.

Sickness is the fruit either of ignorance or sin. Humboldt said: "The time will come when a sick man will be looked upon with the same abhorrence that we now regard a thief or a liar, for the reason that one condition is as much under the subjection of mind as the other; as susceptible of correction as the other.

A lady not yet thoroughly grounded in the principles of Christian Science, can not understand why a Scientist was not willing her patient, afflicted with an eruption on the hands, should bathe them in salt and water. She thought that God would not care if the patient did use a little materia medica.

The expression "self control" is daily in the blatant mouths of preachers and moralists, the very cant of emptiness and folly. It means nothing; nor can any play of words, or cunning twisting of conception, ever give it meaning.

Many invalids, who seem to all appearances Christ-like and good, yet with all their goodness are still physical sufferers, would not be so were it not for the belief back of all, and stronger than all, in the laws of physiology, hygiene, etc. , or in some sin entailed upon them by parents.

Nor can there be found a more rigorous type of practical morality, or clearer denunciations of evil-doing in every form, than exist among Christian Scientists. When they call sin "error," "delusion," "phantom," they mean, not what critics assume, but that the real man, who was created in the image of God, does not commit them.