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Putting on record insights into the practice of Christian Science.

ACTION, REAL AND COUNTERFEIT

Action is an important factor in everyone's experience. Existence is never static and inanimate; it abounds in activity.

THE DUTY TO OUR LEADER

Alert , obedient members of The Mother Church are ever mindful of that important By-Law in the Church Manual by Mary Baker Eddy ( Art. VIII, Sect.

THE IMPOTENCE OF MESMERISM

Rudyard Kipling's character, Kim, mentally refused to listen to an East Indian's mesmeric suggestions intended to make Kim believe that a water jug which appeared to be broken in fifty pieces was joining itself together again. To divert his thought from the suggestions Kim repeated the multiplication table over and over.

MAGNA CHARTA

Justice is not contingent on human laws, humanly administered, which because they are human can be set aside or misinterpreted. It is an attribute of the divine Mind.

THE DEMOCRATIC SPIRIT

How well this person expresses himself, how convincingly, is remarked every day of some writer or speaker. Why his skill, facility, success? There are various reasons, of course.

MRS. EDDY'S PLACE

The position of The Mother Church as to Mary Baker Eddy's place in the fulfillment of Bible prophecy is clearly set forth in the following paragraphs. These conclusions are not new; they are confirmed by our Leader's writings, and the steadily unfolding fruitage of Christian Science bears witness to their truth.

WHAT WE ARE LEARNING

To be taught does not necessarily mean to learn. "Give instruction to a wise man," we read in Proverbs, "and he will be yet wiser: teach a just man, and he will increase in learning.

FOUNDATION STONES

Ah , to build, to build! That is the noblest of all the arts. — Longfellow Each of us is a builder.

CASTING ASIDE THE GARMENT OF HEAVINESS

MANY a genius has searched for perpetual motion quite unmindful that he already possesses it in the form of thought. He can direct his thinking, happily enough, but he cannot for an instant stop it, because spiritual thinking is living, and Life knows neither start nor finish.

RULING THE UNRULY MEMBER

" The tongue can no man tame; it is an unruly evil," said James. Mortals know this, but do little or nothing about it.