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Putting on record insights into the practice of Christian Science.

"HAVING DONE ALL, TO STAND"

Prayer, the deep and true desire of the heart, is always answered. Only mortal sense would seem to argue to the contrary, for mortal sense outlines the fulfillment of desire in terms of materiality, which is illusion.

THE WAITING HOUR

WHEN Truth is entertained and permitted to occupy the field of human consciousness, a change takes place in the whole composition of thought. Christ Jesus likened it to the effect of leaven, which, when placed in the kneading trough, changes the composition of meal, making the dough light and palatable.

SCIENTIFIC FORGIVENESS

FORGIVENESS characterizes great men and women. Joseph, David, and others towered above their fellows because they forgave enemies willingly.

CHRISTIAN SCIENTISTS: CHAMPIONS OF PROGRESS

CHRISTIAN SCIENTISTS appreciate and are grateful for the tremendous contribution of their religion to the thinking of the ages, for Christian Science focuses all that is truly good into the pattern of reality. They know it does this by revealing God as the author of all good and of good alone and as the only author of anything that exists.

THE THIRD DAY

" HE rose again the third day according to the scriptures. " Thus wrote Paul to his friends in Corinth ( I Cor.

THE YOUNG INVESTIGATOR

SOON after the writer commenced the study of Christian Science he made the acquaintance of one who was a Hebrew and Greek scholar of considerable distinction. This man translated the complete Bible from the original languages and learned to think and speak in Hebrew and Greek as readily as in English.

THE MOTHER CHURCH: BULWARK OF FREEDOM

EVERY Christian Scientist is a law unto himself. This is not to say that anyone is license unto himself.

THE ROLE OF THE PROPHET

THE true prophets of Bible times were seers. They foresaw and foretold spiritual events.

DIVINE JUSTICE

IN all human history, no more poignant cry has reached out to God than mankind's unceasing plea for justice. This unquenchable desire hints the presence of the divine order of being, wherein God, good, reigns supreme and righteousness and equity are the eternal facts of existence.

THE NEED FOR SPIRITUAL CONSCIOUSNESS

HE who knows he is a son of God is aware of the evidence that sustains that knowledge. Since spiritual sense alone embraces such knowledge, spiritual sense must be cultivated, or rather revealed, in and by him who would see enduring evidence of what he knows.