In the Christian Science Bible Lesson

STORM AND CALM

THE sea and its waves have served as similes for all peoples in all ages.

INDIVIDUAL WORK

EVERY loyal Christian Scientist is most grateful for The Christian Science Monitor, and is naturally anxious that it may reach as many of his fellow-men as possible.

DEMOCRATIC GOVERNMENT

THE by-law of The Mother Church which provides that "each branch church shall be distinctly democratic in its government".

TRUE DEMOCRACY

IN these days democracy as the essential basis for right government is uppermost in the thoughts of all earnest workers.

FROM OUR EXCHANGES

[Christian World.
Christian Science teaches intelligent obedience to the law of God as taught by the Founder of the Christian religion, which healed the sick then and does so now.
Those who are best acquainted with the teachings of Christian Science know that instead of its being "vitiated with deadly and foolish error"—instead of its having a tendency to "make us the laughing-stock of the religious world"—the very opposite of these assertions is true.
Under the heading "Failing Causes," you allude to Christian Science, and characterize it as belonging to that class.
In an editorial in a recent issue Christian Science is mentioned as one of the "modern tendencies to race suicide.
The direct and indirect influence of Christian Science is alone cutting noticeable inroads into the general percentage of drug sales; for this cult has taken from the druggist people in each community who were once his best customers—people of wealth with real or imaginary ailments that had made them steady patrons of the proprietary shelves or prescription counters.
In a recent issue the statement is made that "Christian Science is about to become nothing more nor less than a political faction.
If there is one thing that is absolutely certain, it is that Christian Science, so far from being based upon what is known as suggestion, is the very polar opposite to and exterminator of all forms of suggestion, or belief in the power of one human or mortal mind over another.