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Recently I saw a young father gently pick up his small son who had fallen asleep in a big chair. Carefully he placed him in his bed, kissed him tenderly, and spoke of his great love for his son.

Strict obedience to the seventh commandment is essential to the demonstration of the Science of being. Mrs.

"Ye are the children of the Lord your God.

If you are in business and are asked the perennial question, "How's business?" can you answer, "It is well" and know the reasons why? If so, you are discerning somewhat that harmony characterizes all that is basically true of creation, including man and his activity, which is entirely spiritual. The Shunammite's example, as recorded in the Bible, should give pause to magnifying untoward material conditions unnecessarily.

Has the word "incurable" become obsolete since the advent of Christian Science? One reads in the Christian Science periodicals and hears at Wednesday testimony meetings in Christian Science churches many accounts of the healing of diseases formerly called incurable. Obviously it is no longer an accurate word.

A recent survey on religion revealed that far too many people, due to their lack of knowledge of Christian Science, believe it to be primarily a substitute for medicine. When asked what they thought about Christian Scientists, their frequent reply was that these are the people who do not consult doctors when they are sick.

David and Jonathan shared a friendship still proverbial for its beauty, strength, and permanence. Apparently they first met following David's triumphant mastery over Goliath, proved on the basis that "the battle is the Lord's" ( I Sam.

In the Manual of The Mother Church by Mrs. Eddy we find the following By-Law: "It shall be the duty of every member of this Church to defend himself daily against aggressive mental suggestion, and not be made to forget nor to neglect his duty to God, to his Leader, and to mankind.

One of the most beautiful promises in the Bible is found in Malachi: "Bring ye all the tithes into the storehouse, that there may be meat in mine house, and prove me now herewith, saith the Lord of hosts, if I will not open you the windows of heaven, and pour you out a blessing, that there shall not be room enough to receive it. " Mal.

A college professor once said to his class that on a certain November day in 1863 his grandfather had stood on a Pennsylvania battlefield close to the speakers' platform where the sixteenth President of the United States of America uttered a few brief but immortal sentences. The grandfather told his grandson that Abraham Lincoln had emphasized the end of his Gettysburg Address thus: "That government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.