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WHEN an accident happened in the presence of the Apostle Paul, he resorted to divine metaphysics, not to physics. It will be recalled that a young man named Eutychus, having fallen asleep during a long talk by Paul, fell from a third-story window and was taken up dead.

OFTENTIMES people view with amazement the poise and assurance maintained by students of Christian Science under extreme hardships. This fearless attitude is occasionally interpreted by onlookers as optimism.

IT is the general opinion of mankind that perfection is an ideal state of being to be sought after or hoped for only in some far-off, indeterminate time or place. But Christ Jesus did not speak of perfection as a mere future possibility.

WHO that has breathed the exhilarating air of the mountains or the salty freshness of the sea has not felt lifted above worldly troubles and pettiness? But higher than the mountains and broader than the sea is the infinite presence of divine Spirit, whose pervading atmosphere speaks of the peace of God and the comfort of Love. Indeed, the ever-available atmosphere of Spirit is more liberating and satisfying than its counterpart in nature can be.

ON one occasion Peter and John instantaneously healed a man who had been lame from birth. For this good deed they were haled before the council, consisting of the high priest, the rulers, elders, and scribes, who, "when they saw the boldness of Peter and John, and perceived that they were unlearned and ignorant men,.

IN her book Science and Health, Mrs. Eddy writes ( p.

" THREE things," wrote Goethe, "are to be looked to in a building: that it stand on the right spot; that it be securely founded that it be successfully executed. " We are all builders after a fashion.

TODAY a concept of law causes the natural scientist to take practically nothing for granted. He willingly disputes the testimony of the physical senses when that testimony does not agree with his concept of natural law.

THE facts of life are considered to be a necessary part of human education. But what are the real facts of Life? Are they material or spiritual? Do they have to do with the circumstances surrounding the temporal beliefs of a material existence, or do they pertain to the eternal verities of spiritual existence? We may find an answer to these questions in Science and Health, where Mrs.

THE scientific truth, discovered by Mrs. Eddy and presented to the world as Christian Science, establishes the fact that man's real identity is entirely separate from the alarming fears of a material sense of existence and is safe in the arms of God, good, at all times.