In the Christian Science Bible Lesson

The numerous efforts made to force medical or health legislation of a certain kind through the various legislatures have attracted very little popular attention.
The clergyman's somewhat contemptuous criticism of what he considers to be the teaching of Christian Science, as quoted in your columns, is scarcely in keeping with the gentle thought of the Master he claims to serve, who reproved his own disciples for forbidding the work of the one who cast out devils in his name "because he followeth not us.
The hundreds of thousands of people who have been immeasurably benefited because of the beneficent teachings of Christian Science stand unitedly in the consciousness that it has brought to them that peace "which passeth all understanding;" that it has not only healed them of their physical troubles, but it has given them a higher and better understanding of God and man's relation to God, whereby they are enabled not only to be better and live better themselves, but also to help and benefit their fellow-men.
It is the good that is seen and felt in Christian Science practice that is its chief attraction, and that is today drawing all men unto it.
Our ministerial critic returned to the charge against the Christian Scientists and against Christian Science last Sunday evening.
Death is mentioned in the Scriptures as an "enemy," and the "last" to be overcome.

A BED OF VIOLETS

As a child I was very fond of roaming the woods.

PAINLESS PROGRESS

With the new birth that comes to us in Christian Science, there dawns a clearer vision and the ability to utilize past experiences which at the time seemed to have no permanent value.

CONSERVATION

One great source of wealth is exchange One gardener may have two hoes and no spade, another two spades and no hoe.

NO SEPARATION IN TRUTH

Those who have studied Christian Science know that as they recognize the Principle of its teachings the unreality of any form of discord becomes apparent.

THE TYRO AND TACT

Many students of Christian Science have doubtless passed through that stage wherein, with hearts filled with gratitude to God for healing, and with wonder at the clear, forceful logic of Christian Science, they have found themselves, in the exuberance of their joy, casting about for a convenient hill-top from which to proclaim the glad tidings to the world; have felt, too, the disappointment which comes when one's message is received with incredulous smiles, if not open antagonism, by those whom they most desire to interest in this new-found truth which has done so much for themselves.

STEPS OF PROGRESS

The chastening influence of self-knowledge through which the loyal Scientist passes is a searching period, attended with surprising discoveries, bare-faced and humiliating.