In the Christian Science Bible Lesson

Music

Desire to help bring out a more intelligent and hearty singing of hymns in a Christian Science Sunday school led the writer to give the subject of music some earnest thought in the light of Christian Science.

Christian Casuistry

SPIRITUAL progress is realized only as one meets with and masters the unnumbered issues of individual experience.

From Our Exchanges

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I have read the communication of a correspondent that appeared in a recent issue of the Times Herald, and appreciate his complimentary remarks concerning the work of Mary Baker Eddy, the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, and author of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," the text-book of Christian Science; but I am somewhat surprised to find that, after admitting that "this extraordinary doctrine of Christian Science purports to revive, explain, and practise the lost power of divine healing," the correspondent adds: "Christian Science church-members will probably understand it.
A doctor endeavored, as reported, to belittle Christian Science by picturing it after fifty years from its discovery as a melancholy failure, "waiting, hoping for the dismal, hopeless afterwhile.
Our critic has confused the latest theories of natural science with the teachings of Christian Science, and thereby results the "wild nonsense" of which he complains.
Some one has written to this journal asking it to advocate a quarantine by Atlantic City against children coming from New York.

"We are well able"

JOSHUA the son of Nun, and Caleb the son of Jephunneh, alone of the twelve sent to investigate the promised land by Moses, returned a verdict true to the law of progress, as stated by Caleb when he said, "Let us go up at once and possess it; for we are well able to overcome it.
The suggestion of the American Medical Association for a Federal "board of medical licensure" should be carefully gone into by the people generally.

Crooked Places Made Straight

IN reading the Bible, both in the Old Testament and in the New, we occasionally meet the word stumbling-block, which is defined by lexicographers as a difficulty or impediment.

Not Death, but Life

IN the course of a sermon a clergyman said he had once witnessed a very pathetic scene.

Demonstration

AT a Wednesday evening meeting in a Christian Science church a testimony was given by one who had been a sufferer from seasickness, to the effect that on the first occasion of having to take a sea journey after becoming a Christian Scientist the water was so calm that there was no fear of inharmony.