In the Christian Science Bible Lesson

While a water famine scare is being raised in various quarters, and while public attention is being directed in this city, Albany, and elsewhere, to schemes to secure to private parties the right to supply the metropolis with more water, the fact has escaped notice that the finishing touches are now being put on immense public works, planned a decade ago, which will more than double the city's supply at single stroke.
There are many millions of postal cards used in the United States every year, and it will surprise the majority of people to learn that the centre of the postal cards industry—the only place, in fact, where they are made—is a little village in the mountains of West Virginia.
The very considerable amount of discussion which is now being carried on regarding forestry and the necessity of national or state regulation of our remaining important forest areas, makes timely a note of the movement which began twenty-one years ago at the Arnold Arboretum in Boston, Mass.

Semper Paratus

THIS was the motto of Lord Clifford, and we are reminded in our text-book that it is also Truth's motto.

Claims

WE are asked by those who have no understanding of Christian Science the meaning of the word "claim" as used in Christian Science.

Be Patient and Faithful

REMEMBERING the first years of daily, yes, hourly effort in overcoming many persistent errors my thought goes out to those dear ones who are taking their first steps in the upward way that is so gently and gradually leading us all away from earth's shadows into the glories of spiritual consciousness.
HAVING experienced so much practical benefit in my business life, resulting from the application of Christian Science, I am impelled to relate a little of my experience for the benefit of others.

In the Carnegie Library at Atlanta

THERE was recently placed in the Carnegie Library at Atlanta, Ga.

Very Apocryphal

Editor of The Scrantonian.
A NUMBER of years ago the late Professor Huxley said that the next great discovery would be in the realm of mind.
WHENEVER an idea is advanced that is not in harmony with the popular notion of the time, there is a general tendency to fight against it.