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The most heartening thing about Christian Science is that it is demonstrable; it can be proved in human experience in tangible, satisfying ways. In fact, Christian Science has justification only as it is so proved through healing and regeneration.

We are often advised to face the facts, and the usual thought accompanying such advice is that the facts are devastatingly grim! But when we understand the true sense of man and the universe, "face the facts" has quite a different meaning. True facts are to be found in the Bible, in the Word of God, where over and over again these facts are lovingly and wisely explained and demonstrated.

Spiritual understanding, developed through the persistent study of Christian Science and daily obedience to its teachings, might be likened to the pearl of great price, referred to by the master Christian, Christ Jesus. Christian Scientists are today charged with the responsibility of displaying this pearl, showing its great value in their daily lives and in their church services and activities.

The life-giving words of Jesus still ring down the centuries, "I am the resurrection, and the life: he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live" ( John 11:25 ). Jesus went through the experience of crucifixion to prove to all the world and for all time that death and evil are not real.

We hear a great deal about power nowadays. The world as never before is thinking about power; and in its own way it is developing power, tremendous power, and is standing aghast before its own inventions.

A CHRISTIAN SCIENTIST went into her garden one sunny morning to examine a flowering shrub and found that it was completely covered with bees, their golden bodies moving rapidly from flower to flower. In the center of this mass of movement sat a colored butterfly with outspread wings, and although the bees climbed ceaselessly over its body in their determination to reach the flowers, the lovely creature was quite undisturbed.

JOHN'S Gospel (Chapters 5 and 8) records the sudden freeing of two individuals from strikingly different bondage. These liberated individuals—the man by the Bethesda pool, who had been crippled for thirty-eight years, and the woman taken in adultery—must have showed to Christ Jesus a willingness to leave their ways, for with characteristic helpfulness the Master blessed each of them with the solemn words, "Sin no more.

MRS. EDDY declares in "Miscellaneous Writings" ( p.

WHAT joy Jesus must have experienced after he resisted the specious suggestions of evil! We read, "The devil leaveth him, and, behold, angels came and ministered unto him" ( Matt. 4:11 ).

THE newcomer to Christian Science soon learns that to obtain the full benefit of the healing and harmony this religion has to offer he must learn to spiritualize thought, and he might well ask, "But how do I spiritualize thought?" In the first chapter of Genesis is recorded God's spiritual creation, perfect and complete. We read ( verse 31 ), "God saw every thing that he had made, and, behold, it was very good.