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FOR many centuries devotion of religious groups has been directed toward the unique family of three who, in the first year of Christianity, came out of Bethlehem of Judea, traveled into Egypt at the direction of an angel, and later settled in Nazareth. This family was composed of the newborn babe Jesus, Mary his mother, and Joseph of Nazareth.

THE patriarch Noah is a character of deep significance although we possess no definite record of the place or even the country of his birth. Of his father, Lamech, we know almost nothing, but his grandfather Methuselah has the distinction of having had a longer life than anyone mentioned in the Biblical records.

" LET your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father which is in heaven" ( Matt. 5:16 ).

MODERN living often seems to exert pressures which threaten dire consequences. To an individual struggling against such pressures, a breaking point may seem imminent.

THAT all Jesus' work was done by reflecting God is clearly illustrated in his thoughtful statement, "My Father worketh hitherto, and I work" ( John 5: 17 ). It was this vital concept of his oneness with God, his inseparability from Him, that enabled Jesus to be so effectively and effortlessly about his Father's business.

FROM the depths of true humility, Mrs. Eddy wrote (Poems, p.

ONE of the problems facing much of humanity over the centuries has been the need for room—room to expand, to express ideas, to carry out plans—in a word, elbow room. This need, or urge, often expresses itself in impatience and irritation when others seem to get in our way.

Make channels for the streams of Love, Where they may broadly run; And Love has overflowing streams, To fill them every one. This verse from the Christian Science Hymnal (No.

IT was Shakespeare who had one of his characters say, So every bondman in his own hand bears The power to cancel his captivity. When we can realize that with Christian Science we have the ability to cast off the shackles of human sense if we want to, the problem at hand no longer seems so immense.

IT is through Spirit's infinite attraction that men and women are drawn to God. This eternal, spiritual impulsion attends all that is truly good and pure in human experience, for real attraction expresses the omnipotence and tenderness of Love.