name.

It may borrow our name and say, "I can't." If we lend ears too, we shall believe it is we that are saying it, and we shall think we can do nothing, when all the while it is error saying that it can do nothing, and that is the nearest that error ever came to telling the truth.

Sometimes it borrows our name and says, "I am discouraged." Next time that it says that, let us talk back and say, "You may be discouraged; but I am not." We We want to lend ourselves to courage only, to health only, to good-God-only. If we have let error take our name, it was "taken in vain." Let us get it back and say instead, "I am made in the image and likeness of God." Let us lend ourselves to God only.

I once knew a four-year-old boy who had a grandma that was not a Christian Scientist. She came into a cold room where he was, and told him to "take care;" for she was afraid he would take cold. After she was gone, he said to himself, "Old error; he thinks he is something like me; but he isn't." He would not lend himself to error, and so error had no boy, and no boy had error.

A Little Heroine.

She is only fourteen years old, but she is a little heroine, and the parents of four hundred children will bear witness to the fact. Ethel B. dared smoke and menacing flame, and while the hundreds of her fellow pupils in the Lincoln School, marched in orderly manner from peril to safety, she stayed courageously at her post.

It was ten o'clock and recitations were being held throughout the building when the cry of "Fire!" startled teachers and pupils. The former were quick to prevent an impending panic. Soothing words quieted the little ones, and then the beating of a drum convinced all that the structure was afire. It was the signal to form in line for the drill, which all the pupils had rehearsed again and again, but never before when there was actual danger.

Hardly had the lines in the various rooms formed before the stirring notes of one of Sousa's marches penetrated to all quarters. Each tramping pupil knew his place, and little Ethel knew hers, too. While the pupils merged from all corners into one general column she played the march as rapidly and as evenly as she could, and in three minutes from the first alarm every soul save Ethel was out of the threatened structure.-Exchange.

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Testimonies of Healing.

The following letter from a patient in England to his practitioner in America testifies to the healing realized in Christian Science. We are informed that this was a young man who ran a rapid course in the way of the world and was brought home from Australia as a paralytic, with a severe bronchial trouble.

He became a Christian through right reason and its consequent revelations, earned through demonstration of the first and second great commandments.-ED.

My Dear Mr. :—I sent you a cablegram two days ago asking you to stop the treatment. I want to see for a bit how I can get on alone. Thanks to your terse and able letters I have got a fairly good hold of the letter of Science, and I fancy that the fact that I have to stand on my own feet will induce me to put forth greater efforts for myself to win the realization of the power I possess through the divine Mind now.

On looking back to last November when I began treatment with you, the progress I have made in health and the understanding of the doctrine seems to me very considerable. Then I was carried or supported from one room into another; the other day I returned alone from London in one day, over twelve hours' traveling, without feeling at all tired. Colonel H., who first told me of Science, writes me, "If your friend could see the same change in you that I can see he would be much pleased.'

When I understood the relation of God and Christ and man, as your second letter enabled me to do, the path was opened out, and then it was just a question of working along the proper lines, under your kindly and patient guid

ance.

If I feel that I need your help and direction again I shall not hesitate to apply to you. Thanking you for your great help in a time of great need. Very truly yours,

A. R.

Two years and a half ago I was a complete invalid in every sense of the word, having a few months before undergone a severe operation. Instead of the operation effecting a cure, as had been hoped by myself and friends, I seemed, if anything, worse. I was quite lame and simply dragged the left limb about. I could not understand, after suffering such agony, why I did not get well and strong. I tried every material remedy that friends suggested and obeyed the doctors faithfully, all to no avail, however. Finally two physicians had decided that I had sustained a rupture and that I would never get well unless I had another operation. I had already had three operations in my life, and the thought of having another made me shudder. Some of my friends, seeing the weak condition I was in, thought I would never survive another operation. Just at this critical point I was filled with despair. Having given massage, electricity, medicines, and the knife a thorough trial, I knew not which way

to turn.

Such was my condition when Christian Science was brought to my notice. I knew absolutely nothing about it, but had a dim notion that it savored of spiritualism, in which I did not believe, but this I very soon found was not a correct idea. After the first visit of the practitioner, my thoughts were in a whirl, and my head, which had ached incessantly for fifteen months, seemed worse than ever. I could not sleep and every wrong I had done in all my life seemed to come up and stare me in the face. This lasted for three days, after which time my recovery was rapid. In less than a week I was eating everything. After dieting for ten months on chopped steak, zwieback, and hot water, the food tasted delicious to me. It seemed as though I could not get enough to eat and all fear was destroyed.

In two weeks I walked down town, a distance of perhaps

half a mile. I felt as light and happy as a little child and I simply could not limp. An invisible something seemed to lift up my feet. After clinging to people so long for support I hardly knew what to do with my hands and arms. They seemed to dangle at my sides like pump-handles. This awkwardness, however, gradually disappeared. The dreadful pain from my head and neck went away, and I also laid aside my glasses, which I had worn constantly for eight years. I had been a great sufferer from childhood with my eyes, and had lain for days during my illness with a bandage of tea leaves on them. At times they would be badly swollen. The physician said I was a nervous wreck and would never be able to do stenographic work again, even if I did get better. My healing occurred during the month of December, and on the first day of April I accepted a heavy position, doing a man's work, after not having written a word of shorthand for fifteen months, and have continued at work

ever since.

For several weeks after my healing I was on the Mount of Transfiguration, as it were, but after coming in contact with the world again I found that I had to descend to the valley and work my way up. I have had many struggles, and it seemed sometimes as if I could not see the light at all, when, most unexpectedly, the way would be made clear. Christian Science has brought so much into my life that I cannot find words to tell it. I always have this feeling of satisfaction, that, no matter how hard the problem seems to be, if I am patient and willing to trust in God, divine Love will readjust the scales sooner or later.

I have had the privilege of class instruction, and my one desire is that I may grow in grace each day. I am deeply grateful to God for His loving kindness, and to our beloved Leader, Mary Baker G. Eddy, who has toiled so incessantly for the good of mankind; also to my helper for her patience and sweetness.-FRANCES M. OSBORNE, Cleveland, O.

Undoubtedly we all desire to learn well the lesson of obedience, knowing that "Obedience to Truth gives man power and strength" (Science and Health, p. 183). We may frequently put self-will aside to follow the voice of Truth, but are there not times in each one's experience when we begin to make excuses?

To some of us, perhaps, such a time is when the call comes to make acknowledgment of the good that has come to us in so many ways, by testifying either in our meetings or periodicals, or both.

Error may suggest abundant excuses, but we are told that "If in one instance obedience be lacking, you lose the scientific rule and its reward: namely, to be made 'ruler over many things'" (Miscellaneous Writings, p. 117).

If we stop to realize that it is not hard to do whatever is right, and that we "can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth," we shall make no excuses.

Those who have been weighed down with the misery and despair that comes with the thought of having an incurable disease and the necessity of continual care-taking in order to be comfortable, and the giving up of all one's cherished plans, particularly at a time when life would otherwise seem so full of brightness, can appreciate something of how much it means to have hope renewed, with evidence given of reason for such hope, and of the great change from bondage to freedom that comes with the destruction of doubt, fear, and sickness.

Ever since my first apprehension of Christian Science I. have been impressed with the thought that there was at this time a cry, a longing for this truth. I used to think-and I know from testimonials that I have read that this has been the experience of many,-Oh, if Christ were only here now, and I could touch the hem of his garment! Now that this longing has been gratified and we have learned that Christ is still with us to save from sickness as well as sin, should we not hasten to be obedient children in every in

stance? We know that each time we obey the next step becomes easier for us.

I am thankful to Mrs. Eddy who has given us such an example of obedience as to make it possible for us to receive the higher understanding of God through Christian Science. A. G. W., Hartford, Conn.

practitioner saying he would like Christian Science treatBy the advice of a friend, a gentleman called upon a ment; he had had rheumatism for a long time in his arms. He bent his head forward and with great difficulty raised he could be relieved it would mean four dollars a day to him. both hands to his head and removed his hat. He said if A treatment was given to him after telling him something of Christian Science and of Mrs. Eddy, its Discoverer and Founder; also of her remarkable healing.

When he left the office, without thinking he took his hat up with one hand and placed it on his head, and walked out; when outside he thought of what he had done, came back, and asked if it had been observed. Then to show he was healed, he removed the hat from his head and replaced it with either hand with perfect ease, and said, "I couldn't do that when I came in here.”

He soon had work at $4.50 per day. This was over a year ago.

In January, 1903, a gentleman living in a distant city was healed by Christian Science treatment of the claim of paralysis. He was unable to help himself in the least in any way, and could not talk. Two physicians treated him for would not call again unless sent for; said they never knew two weeks, finally saying they could not raise him and a case like that ever to get out again. A Christian Scientist in a few days he was able to sit up; in a few days more he was asked to treat the gentleman, and treatment was given; ate at the table with the family, and he was soon walking around the house and yard. Inside of two weeks he walked up town to his place of business. He also regained his speech.

This was all absent treatment. The practitioner never saw the patient until several weeks after, when he came to this city and obtained employment, and he is now working every day.-E. F., Cleveland, O.

do it, but I went, because I knew that nothing could prevent my doing that which was right.

The fifth day, I told my children of it; they said it seemed incredible, because they had noticed not the slight est change in me. Then I showed them my back-it was very black from the bruises, but I said to them, "Do not be frightened; God has saved me through His Word and through my trust in Him." Truth was victorious, as it always is: His promises are being fulfilled.

This trial and overcoming has made me stronger and firmer, and I feel very grateful to God and to our dear Leader, who leads us to Truth and Love.

MRS. CAROLINE WINHEIM, Chicago, Ill.

In 1890 I gave up business in the East and went to try the high, dry climate of Colorado. I had been told that this was the only thing that would do me any permanent good. During eight years prior to this time I had been taking medicine for several diseases with but temporary relief. In 1892, Christian Science was presented to me by a fellow-salesman who had been healed by reading Science and Health. For three years I refused to listen to any great extent to what was said to me by this friend as to what Christian Science could do for me. In 1895, however, having given the climate as well as new materia medica remedies almost five years' trial without any lasting benefit, I decided to give Christian Science a trial, and did

So.

In the first treatment I was healed of one disease, although not the one I considered the worst. Before this help in Christian Science, I was unable to partake of much food, and of only certain kinds, without much suffering. Often I was compelled to drink wine and other liquors in order to feel like eating at all. Since the time of my first treatment I have eaten anything I wanted without any bad effects. For the other diseases I continued treatment for several weeks, and then came to Boston to investigate Christian Science. After being here some time, I again took treatment for several months. Christian Science has destroyed a great deal of fear in my case. Two brothers and two sisters have died of consumption, and I feared this disease until Christian Science destroyed my fear of it.

After coming to Boston, I began at once to attend the Mother Church services. At first I found much fault with the testimonies given at the weekly evening meetings, especially when Mrs. Eddy was referred to. My thought toward her had been poisoned by reading articles in the newspapers, magazines, etc., detrimental to her and to Christian Science. I was healed of this attitude of thought toward Mrs. Eddy, however, just as quickly and effectually as I was healed of dyspepsia, when one evening one of Mrs. Eddy's own students arose in the meeting and said in part, "You can no more separate Mrs. Eddy from Science and Health than you can Moses from the Commandments, or Jesus from the Sermon on the Mount."

These statements healed me of my wrong thought toward Mrs. Eddy. With this healing I began to grow in the understanding of the teachings of Christian Science.

I have received great help from the study of the Bible and Mrs. Eddy's writings. "God is no respecter of persons. The promise is: "Seek, and ye shall find."

I am continually seeing in Mrs. Eddy's life the exemplification of her writings. Her life is proof to me that "one with God is a majority."

I feel sure that I owe my present good health to the teachings of Christian Science.

CALVIN C. HILL, Boston, Mass.

Although I was raised in the Christian doctrine, I had many adversities to meet in later years, for unity of heart and mind, equality in kindness, and love were not found in our home. This condition induced me to investigate

Christian Science, and shortly after, my twenty-monthsold child suffered from indigestion. The physician gave me to understand that the child would not live more than three years, but Science effected the healing in three weeks. and the child is now nine years of age. This elucidated for me the Scripture passage: "O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory ?" I thank God, who has given me the victory in Christ.

Through this teaching I came into the spiritual perception of our heavenly possessions on earth, and that the worldly and earthly have no place in God or in right consciousness.

A short time ago I went to the bedside of a sick one over whom the death sentence had been pronounced, but by knowing that through the reappearing of the Christ-idea, we have eternal life, relief was realized. The young man, who had been afflicted with a terrible disease, is entirely healed and well. "Blessed are they that hear the word of God and keep it." MRS. FRIEDA SCHMIDT, Denver, Col.

In April, 1903, I had the nerve of one of my front teeth. devitalized and taken out without pain, and the outer cavity filled with gold.

The filling seemed perfectly satisfactory until two days after it was completed, when the tooth suddenly began to ache. As it did not respond in the least to my treatment, I went to the dentist and asked him to examine it. He found that in hammering the gold in, the inner filling had been pushed too far up into the apex of the tooth and that the filling would need to be taken out.

The parts were considerably inflamed and the dentist. said that it would be impossible to refill it for a week at least.

This was Thursday night; I was to leave town for the mountains at eight o'clock on the following Saturday morning and would not have another opportunity to have the work done for two months. I explained the situation to him and he said he was sorry but could do no better than put in some temporary substance on Saturday morning. To this I replied that I had planned to go away and felt that I must have the work done, and he finally said that he would fill it, provided I could stand it to have the tooth touched. That evening and the next morning I tried earnestly to make the demonstration, but the tooth seemed quite sensitive still when I set out to the dentist's office. On the way I asked a Scientist for help, but it was not until I was seated in the chair that the sense of pain was destroyed. The cavity was large and I was in the chair seven hours with a rubber dam and clamp on the tooth nearly all the time. When it was finished the dentist said, "You have been one of the best patients I ever had; Christian Science is very effective; I wish all my patients would have that kind of treatment."

Several times before this, I had had very trying experiences and so I feel very thankful for this demonstration. I wish to express my gratitude to Mrs. Eddy for her unselfish love toward all mankind.-J. E. C., Gresham, Col.

I am only a little girl eleven years old. I live in Monroe,

Neb.

About six years ago I was sick with the heart dis

ease. I was in bed for six months. Four different doctors came to see me and they said that they could not do anything for me. They said that if I ever got well I could not run and play as other children did.

One day my aunt came to see me. She asked mother if she would let me be cured by Christian Science. Of course mother said yes. We did not believe in it at all. In about a week after that I was able to walk around, and I can run and play like other children. I am so thankful to Mrs. Eddy for teaching us the way.

FEN VAN ALLEN, Monroe, Neb.

I should like to tell of my healing which seems to be an uncommon case. I was for several years in the habit of taking morphine when suffering from severe attacks of pain that seemed chronic. The habit so grew upon me that for over a year I was almost constantly under its influence, but lacked the moral courage to ask for help, till through a mistake an overdose was taken and my life was saved only by Christian Science.

A short time afterward the sense of bondage seemed to grow so strong again that help was asked to overcome it. After two treatments, there followed a night of peace such as I had not known for years, and the desire never returned. Can we ever thank our Leader enough for the light she has given us that makes us free indeed.

A. E.. D., Provo City, Utah.

I wish to express my gratitude for what Christian Science has done for me. It has been a spiritual uplift rather than a physical, although my health has greatly improved now that I am beginning to understand the Principle of being. The feeling of peace and harmony has manifested itself stronger in the past week than ever before. I have come to the realization that no human being or material belief can mar the perfect joy of Truth. The thought, "Life is eternal" (Science and Health, p. 246), has helped me greatly to demonstrate over the limitations of time.

MABELLE E. EVERETT, Orange, Cal.

I should like to express the gratitude I feel for what Christian Science has done for me. I have studied for more than three years, and one ailment after another has been healed until I feel like a new person. I have been a channel for the healing of others, but the spiritual uplifting and a clear understanding of the Scriptures is more. than all else. Thanks to God and Christian Science. J. H., Spencer, Wis.

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The Rev. F. M. Bennett, in an article in The Christian Register, says:

"In the mind of John the Baptist the day of judgment was to be somewhat deferred.

With Jesus the punishment was not to be deferred. His moral and spiritual teaching was for the present rather than for the future. . . . True repentance brings the fruits of repentance at once. The kingdom of God was not to be here, or there, or then; the kingdom, such as it is, is now and within you. The 'wrath of God' has already fallen on you for your evil, and the rewards of righteousness are present in your character. The actual touch of the Holy Spirit is a cleansing fire for the soul. The divine judgment makes a clean sweep of the threshing-floor of human life. By its own motives and acts, character gathers the wheat into the garner, and burns the chaff in the fire of the spirit. The judgment, the sentence, and its execution are immediately performed. The judgment day is not deferred. It is now and here. The court of character is continuously in session, and has no adjournments. In human life the sheep and the goats separate themselves, and each soul inevitably goes to the place assigned by the quality of its life.

"People sometimes speak with a kind of reflective horror, a far-off, disdainful pity in their tones, of the pictures of physical and spiritual torture of the future hell which were drawn by such men as the great Jonathan Edwards and the noted revivalists of the past. People sometimes speak as if they were glad to be released from the old fear of these threats, never realizing that the present hells into which they plunge themselves by their sins and evils are, in fact, a thousand times more to be dreaded. That old-time future hell was not comparable to the punishment which is actually given to the evil life now and here. As we sow, so do we reap, evil fruit for evil seed; and the crop is not long in growing. This is the fact which modern science is continually proclaiming. The hell of science is more sure and fearful than the old hell of theology. The old theology said you will be damned for your sins. Modern science says, Your sins not only have damned you, but they kill you, body and soul, so that you may drag through this world little better than a corpse, with not even enough life to realize that you are practically dead.

"We can become appreciative of the true beauty and worth of the world and its life if we persistently cultivate the power to see it at its best, and guard against these impurities of our lives that are sure to blur our vision. We may find our heaven here and now if we will make ourselves strong and pure enough to enter into the rewards of righteousness,-the rewards which come only with right living, right thinking, right

body and mind while misery is impervious to both. Most creatures spontaneously, like the singing birds, express their delight in life. A third argument may be derive! from the ministry of Jesus. He expressed the mind of God towards us. A large part of his ministry was devoted to alleviating suffering, to making the miserable happy. My final argument is drawn from his teaching. Of course, his main purpose was to make us good; but he recognized the fact that we could not very well be good unless we are happy And so, much of his discourse is occupied with instructions about the conditions and means of obtaining happiness."

The Rev. W. H. P. Faunce, D.D., in his baccalaureate sermon at Brown University said: "If our young men and women too often think little of the powers of the world to come, is it not because the conventional heaven is a combination of orientalism and formalism, which to us is utterly unreal? Under the influence of popular hymnology, we have made heaven a mere state of marble fixity and passivity, of correct stagnation, from which generous, eager spirits revolt. 'Rest for the weary'-that heaven will do for the sick, the defeated, the aged; it has no charm for the strenuous occidental manhood which wants nothing so much as a great task with a great result. The heaven of Jesus was a place of responsibility, vicissitude, and enterprise. 'Have thou author. ity over cities;' 'I will make thee ruler over many things;' 'Enter into the joy of thy Lord' such was the heaven of Jesus, throbbing with vital action and aglow with further conquest. To get behind all traditional conceptions and venerable formulas, and stand face to face with the eternal verities of the spiritual world-far more real than all the world that touches eye and ear -is the distinguishing desire of the truly religious man to-day."

The presence of our fellow-beings is a great blessing, but many are sorely tempted thereby. One feels envy, jealousy, pride, contempt, and bitterness when he looks upon his neighbors. Another is cold, indifferent and impatient. The inequality in condition has caused a world of discontent and envy. Sometimes those who prosper most are least worthy. The Psalmist was sorely tried when he saw the prosperity of the wicked. But when he went into the sanctuary his eyes were opened. He saw that worldly prosperity is hollow, that inequality in the condition of men is chiefly in the outward appearance, that the saints of God have something better than prosperity, better than success, better than the world. Worldly greatness is a ridiculous fiction. True greatness is in the heart.

The Christian Advocate.

Faith means the giving over of our lives

which is true and good and beautiful. But no way of selfishness can lead to such a heaven.

"We are our own judges, and we go now each to our own place, according to the quality of life which we can gain. We ourselves separate the chaff from the wheat, cleanse our own threshing-noor, and burn the refuse in the unquenchable fire of the divine spirit which burns within us. This is our judgment day, and every to-morrow in this world must be another."

Albert E. Waffle, D.D.. says in The Watchman: "God wants all His creatures to be happy. To prove this proposition four arguments may be adduced, all of which taken together put the question beyond controversy. One is from the Fatherhood of God. No human parent worthy the name of father or mother wants his children to be miserable: Jesus taught us to believe that God is a father more loving, tender, and compassionate than any earthly parent. Another argument is from the fact that happiness is normal. We are constituted for it by the hand of Him who made us. When we are well and strong existence itself is a pleasure. Happiness promotes health of

to make of them. Energy finds its opportunity in obedience and service. It is the paradox of the Christian life that power comes with surrender. He that loseth his life shall save it. When we hold our lives for Christ we hold them at once more loosely and more powerfully than before. They may consist of only ordinary powers in humdrum circumstances, but Christ will use them. And we may not measure the value or the fruits of his chosen use, any more than Peter could have foreseen or foretold the fruits of his life consecration to the teacher who became his Saviour and his lord.

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Our sins will not keep still; at the time we most wish them to hush they set up an incriminating hubbub of noises. It was written a long time ago but it is still true. "Be sure your sin will find you out." Our own characters will display it. Our sin may be done in the secret recesses of Amalek, but its consequences will appear at Gilgal. The Standard.

The Watchman observes: "There is a great difference between taking things as they

are, and acquiescing in things as they are. We have to do our work on the basis of recognizing the hard facts of the situation, but no man benefits the world who does not do something to make things more as they should be."

The Watchman says: "Some intellectual difficulties that men find to an acceptance of Christianity are undoubtedly real and genuine, but many others are the pretexts of those who speak to evade a mode of life approved by their moral natures."

There is but one sovereign will in the universe, and against it none other can contend.. The eternally right and the eternally good will prevail by the power of eternal God.-REV. R. J. CAMPBELL.

Before we can bring happiness to others, we must first be happy ourselves, nor will happiness abide within us unless we confer it on others.-MAETERLINCK.

What is it to be like Christ? It is to be able to take what is sweet and wholesome out of life everywhere and put it into other lives. REV. P. F. MARSTON.

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