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Inscribed on one side of the Boston Public Library are these words: "The Commonwealth requires the education of the people as the safeguard of order and liberty. " It is natural that one should wish to be well educated, and many young persons work diligently to win scholarships to colleges, while others have the means to attend schools of higher learning with little financial effort.

This statement by Mrs. Eddy appears on page 281 of the Christian Science textbook, Science and Health: "Divine Science contradicts the corporeal senses, rebukes mortal belief, and asks: What is the Ego, whence its origin and what its destiny?" In the next paragraph our Leader gives us the answer to this great question: "The one Ego, the one Mind or Spirit called God, is infinite individuality, which supplies all form and comeliness and which reflects reality and divinity in individual spiritual man and things.

In the Gospel of Luke it is recorded of the boy Jesus that he "increased in wisdom and stature, and in favour with God and man" ( 2:52 ). Surely it should be the goal of every parent to see a child increase daily in the divine favor, as well as in the human.

True joy is spiritual. It is the expression of God, life-giving Truth, majestic Soul, the only creator, forever holding man in the realm of imperishable Life.

As understood in Christian Science, the word Life is a synonym for God. Life, as God, is what He makes it, because the divine Being is self-created, self-determined, and eternally self-expressed.

WHEN Moses and Aaron returned to Egypt from the wilderness of Sinai, armed with the authority with which God had entrusted them, Aaron outlined to the Israelites the plans made for their deliverance. He repeated the signs that had been shown to Moses, which must have included the turning of his rod into a serpent and the rod's return to its normal condition and Moses' swift healing of an equally sudden indication of leprosy.

TODAY , when nations as well as individuals are seeking escape from the varied and menacing presentments of worldly chaos and upheaval, it is reassuring to consider Mrs. Eddy's statement in the textbook, Science and Health ( p.

ONE'S understanding of a given subject is proved by practical demonstration of its rules. One may read a motor manual and tell others how to drive a car; but until one has actually sat in a car and driven it along the highway, one has not proved one's understanding of automobile driving.

IT is frequently suggested to us in human experience that certain acts on our part will raise or lower our social or business status or that we shall present a better image if we conform to various customs. But what of our status and image as expressions of God, divine Principle? Christ Jesus, always aware of his true worth, denounced the false status-seeking of the scribes and Pharisees by warning his disciples against following their vain ways.

WHEN Christ Jesus and his twelve disciples were gathered in the large upper chamber to eat the Last Supper together, he talked tenderly to them of many things. "I will pray the Father," he promised them, "and he shall give you another Comforter, that he may abide with you for ever; even the Spirit of truth"' ( John 14:16, 17 ).