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232 street-cars. Men can read the answer in the stars, to questions about cycles and comets. Nay, by the stars they can measure forces once unknown.

It is an era of Natural Science, and our City must not lack this boundary. Nor is it found wanting. If Natural Science says one thing more clearly than another, it is this: that law is everywhere, and that there can be no exception to it. Natural Science denies miracles, if by a miracle is meant any variation from the regular order of divine cause and effect.

Herein Christian Science is in a line with Natural Science. Christian Science devoutly believes the wonderful works performed by Jesus, but affirms that his so-called miracles were in accord with the highest law; that they proceeded from the Divine Principle of him, which is the Christ, or anointed imperial humanity; that if Jesus' works were grander than those of his followers, it is because of his less material birth, which grafted him into a profounder spirituality; and finally that all men and women, in proportion as they are true disciples of the Truth, can heal and be healed, even according to the Master's word. In the language of Dr. J. F. Clarke, —

The City of Christian Science is indeed a City of the Spirit, fair, royal, and square. Northward, its gates open to the North Star of the Bible, the Polar magnet of revelation; eastward, to the star seen by the Wise Men of the Orient, who followed it to the manger of Jesus; southward, to the genial tropics, with the Southern Cross in the skies, — the Cross of Calvary, which binds human society into solemn union; westward, to