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If humanity today would accept and practice the simple but profound instruction of the Master, Christ Jesus, "Seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you," Matt. 6:33; human experience would be vastly improved.

"We travel to arrive"! These challenging words are from a poem "Perspective" by Godfrey John which appeared in The Christian Science Monitor some years ago. They spell unswerving purpose and a goal never out of sight.

The post of sentinel is given to those appointed in all armed services in wartime as a duty to be carried out without hindrance or failure. The sentinel must be thoroughly alert to challenge every effort of an intruder to find entrance into the camp through subtlety or force.

Throughout history human progress has been the outcome of mankind's glimpsing of the truth set forth in the Bible: "God saw every thing that he had made, and, behold, it was very good. " Gen.

Christmas! Shouldn't that one word fill our hearts with joyous anticipation and deep gratitude? The Christmas season is an opportunity to commemorate the effectiveness of the ever-present Christ, the true, spiritual idea of God. To the individual who understands this it brings an expectancy of unfolding good.

Mrs. Eddy thus describes the transforming power of gratitude: "What is gratitude but a powerful camera obscura , a thing focusing light where love, memory, and all within the human heart is present to manifest light.

Everyone experiences at some time a particularly pressing or important need and is faced with the task of seeking its fulfillment. If the answer is sought through the usual material channels, the chance of a satisfactory solution to the problem may seem remote or impossible.

When Christ Jesus comforted his disciples with the words, "Peace I leave with you, my peace I give unto you: not as the world giveth, give I unto you," john 14:27; he surely must have referred to the power of Love, God, to confer a peace that is more than the mere tranquillity of a material sense of things. His many exhortations to love one's brother indicate that this peace consists of the confident awareness that the power of divine Love, which always governed his thought and motivated his acts, is forever with us all in every generation to guide and protect us.

Every student of Christian Science entertains a deep desire to obey the Ten Commandments. But in order to remain true to these directives given by God to Moses many centuries ago for the guidance of the children of Israel, it is necessary to guard our consciousness diligently against the encroachments of false beliefs.

To build understandingly for a noble purpose is architecture in its highest sense. To state clearly the purpose or function of something is, to the receptive thought, to describe the outcome.