In the Christian Science Bible Lesson

Every now and then some individual or paper uses the word "imagined" in connection with a remark about Christian Science, implying that the members of that church "imagine" a great many things.
Some one has said that "prayer is the soul's sincere desire, uttered or unexpressed;" and it is true that the honest desire to know God, good, is a necessary precedent to that knowledge of the power and presence of divine Mind which Christian Science reveals as the only real power and presence.
Christian Science teaches that spiritual power, reflected from God, is amply sufficient to overcome all beliefs in the power of matter and the actuality of disease, but the demonstration of this truth is measured by the growth of the individual consciousness in the understanding of the real man and in the disappearance of the fears and false beliefs of generations back.
Christian Science is, as a matter of fact, the effort to reestablish primitive Christianity, and primitive Christianity consisted not merely in preaching the gospel, but in healing the sick, and by healing the sick is understood, in Christian Science, not simply the overcoming of disease and pain, but the destruction of poverty and misery, of sorrow and sin,—in short, of all conditions which are inharmonious and so contrary to divine law.
We are absolutely at one with Mr.

"TAUGHT OF GOD."

When we first heard of Christian Science in our home, the remark was made to us by a friend, "But how can you become Christian Scientists, when there is no reading-room where you live, and no one to explain the text-book to you?

THE RIGHT SPIRIT

A work of genius is so simple that a child may comprehend its message.

THE PASSING OF A PROVERB

In her "Miscellaneous Writings".

THE ARMOR OF GRATITUDE

There are moments when one is tempted to believe that fear and discord are besieging one very closely, moments when one's "Get thee behind me, Satan," is too feebly uttered to be of immediate avail, and indeed when it may sound more like an expression of fear that error may prolong its unwelcome visit.

TRUTH UNVARYING

Any careful observer can hardly fail to see that the world's belief in causation is largely on the side of evil, and that its sense of effect is proportionately manifested in disaster, disease, and distress.

THE VALUE OF TRUE EDUCATION

During schooldays, while a nominal student of Christian Science and depending solely upon it for physical help, the writer found little time or inclination for religious reading, as the hours seemed filled to overflowing with college work and college play.

PLEASURES

The notion is generally held that many of the pleasures of this life, including those which we most keenly enjoy, are sinful; that is, they violate some law which governs man's being.