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all and through all not in one time or place more than another, not as a "miracle" wrought by special prayer, but as an ever-present fact.

The whole universe is to be hallowed as the body or manifestation of Divine Life and Substance. Jew, Catholic and Protestant are uniting to-day in this "Communion," and are rejoicing together in the revelation of the Real Presence of our Lord as the perfection in everything. (Fuller explanation of these various doctrines is given in other lessons and chapters of this book.)

The sweet influence of "silence" that characterizes the Quaker religion is known and exercised in Science. Its starting point is stillness, and all activity is the fruit of the Wisdom received in silence.

The Episcopal doctrine of Apostolic Succession is retained and enlarged in these teachings. Direct successors of the Apostles are to know themselves commissioned to "observe all things whatsoever" that Jesus commanded the twelve to do. (Matt. 28:19, 20.) Successors of the apostles are enjoined to "Preach the gospel, heal the sick."

Apostolic succession necessitates the healing of the sick in connection with the preaching of the gospel.

Nor does Science find aught to combat outside of Churches. The Pantheist says, "There is no God but the combined forces and laws that are manifest in the existing universe, the universe taken or conceived