In the Christian Science Bible Lesson

Instantaneous Healing

We read in "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mrs.

Political Preferment

During the turmoil, in the United States, of quadrennial political activity, it is essential that those who exercise the franchise preserve that equanimity of thought which enables them to differentiate between the precept and the practice of those who seek elective honors.

Signs of the Times

[Florence Davis in Detroit.
A correspondent, who writes in a recent issue, is not a Christian Scientist, and evidently does not know the difference between Christian Science and all methods in which the human or carnal mind is the only factor at work.
The gentleman, "J.
When to a Christian Scientist the question is submitted as to the relation of religion and Science, he experiences with joy that through Christian Science he has found an answer which not only satisfies his intellect but also quickness and enriches his spiritual self, inspires him with unlimited and efficacious love for his fellow men and for all creation, and makes him conscious of the Father's allness, of His kingdom, which is come on earth as well as in heaven.
In a recent issue of The Citizen you published a short report of a lecture on hypnotism, in which the lecturer alludes to Christian Science, saying that "it advocates the power of suggestion and the strengthening of the will.
Before the clarifying rays of Christian Science were observed amid the chaos of human thinking, it was a traditional saying that Jesus' use of parables and figurative language made his teaching transcendental and obscure.

Expression Equals Demonstration

On page 336 of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," Mary Baker Eddy, the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, writes: "Immortal man was and is God's image or idea, even the infinite expression of infinite Mind, and immortal man is coexistent and coeternal with that Mind.

Independence

In view of the fact that the world has arrived at a stage when as never before independence is being sought after by the individual, the classes, the nations, the thinkers, it is very essential that the true meaning of that state should be understood in order that the pitfalls laid by human sense whenever its claims are threatened by a right idea, may be seen, avoided, and eventually destroyed.

Seeing

Throughout the Scriptures the word "eye" is frequently used to denote spiritual vision, as when Job declared upon gaining a clearer thought of God, "I have heard of thee by the hearing of the ear: but now mine eye seeth thee;" and the prophet Isaiah exclaimed, "For mine eyes have seen the King, the Lord of hosts.

Ambition

There have been many good and enlightening articles written on true ambition, and is it any wonder that it comes to so many individuals to endeavor to throw light on a subject of such universal interest?