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TO an earnest student of Christian Science, each dawning day can be an opportunity for real progress. When the gaining of "the wondrous glory" of spiritual enlightenment is recognized as paramount, human wants and desires become of minor importance.

FOR centuries spiritually-minded men and women have been aware of God's presence and His comforting nearness. "Am I a God at hand, saith the Lord, and not a God afar off? Can any hide himself in secret places that I shall not see him? saith the Lord.

THE disciples of Christ Jesus were students, pupils of that God-sent Saviour whose spiritually prophesied mission was to reveal divine Truth to mankind. This great Teacher gave to his students the fundamentals of divine Science, the source of which is the Mind that is God.

ON a beautiful fall day two students of Christian Science were walking on a deserted beach, their bare feet washed by the incoming tide. They had gone several miles enjoying the sparkling weather and engrossed in sharing their experiences, when suddenly one of them, the writer, gave a cry and stopped.

IN her book "Retrospection and Introspection," Mrs. Eddy writes ( p.

THE truth of the unity of God and man is readily recognized through logical reasoning. However, if this recognition is not accompanied by a spiritual understanding of God's presence and by the power to heal, it may remain nothing more than an intellectual abstraction.

IN studying the Scriptures and Science and Health by Mrs. Eddy, students of Christian Science find it important to differentiate between the absolute facts of being, which are unchanging and eternal, and the relative statements, which apply only to the human state we seem to be living in.

THE tremendous technological advances accomplished by physical science have brought mankind into an age of atomic power and missiles and possible trips to the moon. Earthbound beliefs are being eliminated.

ONE who had seen much of life and who had thought a great deal concerning God's love was taking a walk with his grandson. It was a day in the winter, and the snow began to fall.

The quality of mercy is not strain'd; It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven Upon the place beneath. It is twice blest— It blesseth him that gives, and him that takes.