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A SIMPLE statement by Mrs. Eddy in Science and Health may arouse one to serious thought.

IN a sermon to his disciples, Christ Jesus stressed the importance of spiritual readiness when he said ( Luke 12:35 ), "Let your loins be girded about, and your lights burning. " Let us ask ourselves: Are we spiritually prepared at all times to behold ourselves as in reality the man of God's creating? Are we alert in realizing our immunity from the so-called laws of heredity, age, contagion? Are we instantly ready to see that envy, impatience, and self-righteousness are unreal and to replace them with love, patience, and humility? If our answers to these questions are in the negative, then we need to establish firmly in consciousness the truth of the perfection of God and of man, as perfect Principle and perfect idea, perfect cause and perfect effect.

THE first verse of Hymn No. 171 in the Christian Science Hymnal begins, Let us sing of Easter gladness That rejoices every day.

THE Psalmist prayed ( Ps. 119:18 ), "Open thou mine eyes, that I may behold wondrous things out of thy law," and this humble prayer has continued through the centuries to lead all who would to glimpse the glory and power of God.

THERE is but one spiritual existence, —the Life of which corporeal sense can take no cognizance. The divine Principle of man speaks through immortal sense.

THE Psalmist knew where the saving grace of God is to be found, and he sang: "I will lift up mine eyes unto the hills, from whence cometh my help. My help cometh from the Lord, which made heaven and earth" ( Ps.

WHAT is often called the population explosion presages the possibility of problems of supply which to many people may seem unsolvable despite unparalleled advances in the physical sciences toward their solution. But Christian Science, the Science of God's allness and His infinite provision for man, affords the spiritual solution, and in the degree that this Science is understood, humanity will have abundant supply for all its needs.

IN the eyes of the world Jesus' lifework terminated in a cross of dishonor and defeat. Little did his enemies realize that the name, the teaching, and the influence they expected to obliterate were perpetuated through the crucifixion.

TO her students Mary Baker Eddy, the beloved Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, extends an invitation. She says (Miscellaneous Writings, pp.

FOR centuries men have searched for the kingdom of heaven as if it were some far-off place. Yet when Jesus walked among the people, he told them that the kingdom of heaven is at hand, and in proof of this he destroyed all kinds of mental and physical inharmonies.