In the Christian Science Bible Lesson

ACKNOWLEDGING GOD

That God is good and All-in-all, that He is the present and eternal Life of all that has life and being, that He loves and meets every need of His whole creation, that all things are safe in the divine Mind and Love, that in Him and to Him there is good and only good, and that He is always working everything together for the highest good to each and all, and consciously so for all who love and do good, is what all should wish to have true, and what every one in high moments of insight and love instinctively feels is true.
The Christian Science text-book, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," occupies an important place in the world, and it is safe to say that its influence and popularity are growing each day.
[The Universalist Leader.
When Christian Science comes into one's life, the community has gained a better man, a better father, and a better citizen, and one who is daily striving to practise the Golden Rule and is seeking his own in another's good.
When a Christian minister espouses the cause of the material senses and turns advocate for them, he places himself, perhaps unwittingly, in the ranks of the materialists, a paradoxical position for a Christian.
In denying the reality of "the ills which flesh is heir to," let it be understood what Mrs.
Christian Science is the effort to make the teaching of Jesus as practical in the twentieth century as it was in the first, and it must be remembered that the practice of Christianity in the first century applied not only to the broad question of human progress, but to every minutiæ of human existence.
In proof of our statement that Christian Science is Christianity pure and unadulterated, it is necessary to consider two points,—first, what constitutes Christianity; second, does Christian Science embody Christianity?
In your issue of Nov.

"ANNOUNCING AUTHOR'S NAME"

When I first began to attend the service at The Mother Church, I was a member of an orthodox church, and as the Reader announced the author's name at the reading of the Christian Science text-book I thought there was too much emphasis laid on it.
I have been surprised to find some misapprehension in regard to the right manner of studying the Sunday Bible-Lessons, as given in the Christian Science Quarterly.

THE MATERIAL SENSES

Many readers of the fourth chapter of John think that in saying, "Thou hast had five husbands; and he whom thou now hast is not thy husband," our Master administered a merited rebuke to the Samaritan woman; but a study of the Scriptures in the light of our text-book shows this to be but one of the many instances where Jesus used a familiar material symbol to illustrate a spiritual truth.