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Putting on record insights into the practice of Christian Science.

THE APPEAL OF WOMANHOOD

Woman by divine rights is needed to fill her place in the office of human rights. Womanhood has had heart-torn, weary centuries of being bound as a chattel by selfish male humanity, while male wars have raged unceasingly.

HYPNOTISM NO LONGER COVERED

Anything which has a secret method depends for its efficacy on being hidden; for it is graphically true, as declared in Proverbs, that "surely in vain the net is spread in the sight of any bird. " Mrs.

THE BOY DAVID

Keeping his sheep under the sun and under the stars, what manner of a boy was David? When Saul had proved himself to be inadequate as a king, the prophet Samuel was sent forth by God's command to find another king and was led to visit Jesse, the Beth-lehemite. He passed this man's sons in review until he came to the youngest, David, of whom the record says, "Now he was ruddy, and withal of a beautiful countenance, and goodly to look to.

IDENTITY AND INDIVIDUALITY

The great struggle of humanity has undoubtedly for its object the full realization of man's identity, with all that this implies. It is needless to say that mankind is by no means conscious of this, unless a large measure of spiritual enlightenment be granted; but just the same it is the dynamic influence forever at work shaping the destinies of the race as no lesser consideration can ever do.

THE BULWARK OF THE SUNDAY SCHOOL

Great events were happening in the world in 1780. Not the least of these was the formation of the first Sunday school by Robert Raikes in Gloucester, England.

SPIRITUALITY VERSUS SPIRITUALISM

If there is one thing for which Christian Scientists are more thankful than for any other, it is that the teachings of Christ Jesus have been so illuminated for them and have become so practical that they are never for a moment lost sight of. This spiritual illumination is linked so closely to the healing work in Christian Science that the student turns instinctively to the words of the Master as recorded in the gospels, whatever be his problem.

NEW JERUSALEM

Beauty and glory shine round about New Jerusalem. It is a state of consciousness which comes with the new birth of water and the Spirit.

MUSIC'S WILDERNESS JOURNEY

All those who in the world at the present time are following after righteousness must find great comfort from the promises in the Bible. Take for example the assurance given by Isaiah when he says, "The Lord shall comfort Zion: he will comfort all her waste places; and he will make her wilderness like Eden, and her desert like the garden of the Lord; joy and gladness shall be found therein, thanksgiving, and the voice of melody.

SAVING GRACE

EVERY quality pertaining to God and man has its specific use. Grace is a saving attribute; it is an adjunct to the healing of the sick and the sinning, an expression of love which clothes science and law with spiritual attraction and causes truth to be recognized by human consciousness as lovely and of good report.

SIGNS AND THEIR INTERPRETATION

IN all lands and times people have looked for signs in the heavens above and in the earth beneath. The sick look for signs of cure, while those around them are often seeing signs of death.