In the Christian Science Bible Lesson

FACING ONE'S DIFFICULTIES

An enemy is never conquered by running away from him, for we thus acknowledge him to be the stronger.

CRITICS AND CRITICISM

Criticism of Christian Science is apt to be very like what Hamlet says of an unweeded garden—that is, to grow to seed.

FROM OUR EXCHANGES

[The Universalist Leader]
The teaching of Science and Health with regard to marriage, which seems to disturb our critic, is based upon the teaching of Christ Jesus that the human institution of marriage is a "suffer it to be so now" condition, the obligations and responsibilities of which must be conscientiously observed by those who assume them, but that when the universal consciousness has been sufficiently spiritualized to have eliminated the belief of intelligence and life in matter—the state of consciousness referred to by Jesus as the resurrection—then, as he declares, there will be no marrying or giving in marriage, but they shall be "as the angels of God in heaven.
To meditate on the "law of the Lord, day and night," and to have delight therein, means simply that he who, through spiritual understanding, discerns the unseen but ever-present, ever-operative power of God in all things, and who readily yields his will to the divine impulse, shall surely prosper.
It is always a mistake to conclude that your neighbor is a fool because he differs from you.
We are told by some critics that the use of drugs is as reasonable a part of God's plan to cure disease as any other.
The purpose of this article is not to criticize the methods of the medical profession; it is rather to show that the age in which we live demands a more intellectual and spiritual medicine, and that Christian Science is meeting this demand.
We publish to-day [July 10] a letter in defense of Christian Science, written in answer to certain strictures which appeared in our columns a couple of weeks ago.

RELIGION

Our attention has recently been called to a remark by the late Professor Huxley, that it is probably impossible to find an acceptable definition of the world religion.

"BLEST BE THE TIE THAT BINDS."

Once, just before Thanksgiving, while thinking of the wide continent which separated me from home and loved ones, a feeling of loneliness and sadness came over me for an instant.

THE CHRISTIAN'S BANK

Suppose a man were to go to a bank and demand one hundred dollars, and the paying teller found he had no account with the bank, what would and what should the teller do?