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AT the time he received the Commandments on Mount Sinai, Moses must have glimpsed their true spiritual import and grandeur. The prophets and disciples, generally, understood the foundational character of the Decalogue, as is indicated in their many references to it.

THE student of Christian Science early learns that Mrs. Eddy's restoration of the healing power established by Jesus came through her discovery that this Science of the Christ was based on the spiritual fact of perfect God and perfect man, coexistent and eternal.

THE poet Longfellow wrote, Thinking the deed, and not the creed, Would help us in our utmost need. Thought and words, without deeds, do not prove the utility of a creed.

SPIRITUAL loyalty is a conscientious and trustworthy living of the spiritual facts of being. It is not enough merely to be acquainted with the truth.

MANY people know the marvel of living in a time of expanding concepts and scientific wonders. Material barriers are being surmounted, but this broad knowledge is not without its limitations.

SEEING is often synonymous with understanding. A common expression in everyday life is, "I see," meaning, "I understand or comprehend.

CHRIST JESUS had unquestioning confidence in God's power and its availability to meet every human need, to heal and loose mankind from bondage of every nature. He understood the allness, the ever-presence, of infinite divine Love.

OFTEN in our experience difficult decisions have to be made in charting our next moves. A wrong decision, sometimes even a minor one, may seriously affect the harmony and happiness of our lives.

IN Isaiah ( 42:8 ) we read, "I am the Lord: that is my name: and my glory will I not give to another, neither my praise to graven images. " This positive declaration, as explained by Christian Science, emphasizes not only the absolute supremacy of God, good, but also the spiritual fact that all that is truly good and perfect exists within His glorious omnipotence, omnipresence, and omniscience, untouched by evil, deterioration, and dissolution.

CHRIST JESUS gave as one of the two great commandments ( Mark 12:31 ), "Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself," but he did not stop at words. He healed the sick, regenerated the sinner, raised the dead, and sent his disciples out to do the healing works of Christ, Truth.