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What is thy birthright, man, Child of the perfect One; What is thy Father's plan For His beloved son? These lines from the Christian Science Hymnal ( Hymn No. 382 ) call to mind the first chapter of Genesis, in which it is clearly stated that God made man in His own image and likeness and gave him dominion over all the earth.

ARE we putting on excess weight? Do we believe that if we took some off, we would feel better and look better? What is the remedy, diet or dominion? To those who might favor diet, Christian Science calls attention to the fact that the government of the body does not lie with matter but with divine Mind and that one demonstrates this government by gaining dominion over human thought, with its false appetites and indulgences. "Of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it.

A TEACHER in a Christian Science Sunday School was asked one Sunday, "Christian Scientists do not make experiments, do they?" The pupil who asked this question desired confirmation that a student of Christian Science does not deliberately create a discordant situation in order to prove the healing truth of Science. An interesting discussion took place.

LONG ago, Jesus warned his disciples of mesmeric materialism, which would, if unresisted, paralyze the good thoughts and actions of men and thus give the devil, or error, free reign in the world. "False Christs and false prophets shall rise," he said, "and shall shew signs and wonders, to seduce, if it were possible, even the elect.

REASONING must be scientific in order to obliterate false belief. If reasoning is from a premise that is based on error, the error is certain to appear in the conclusion.

WHEN it is looked upon as an opportunity to glorify God, ushering in a Christian Science church is a holy experience. Sometimes those who have not served as ushers think that serving in that way is an unimportant task which can be performed with little or no preparation.

CHRISTIAN SCIENCE removes suffering and completely heals disease. Often it enables the one healed to see that God did not make disease for anyone, that an erroneous mental state has falsely been called a material state, and that immortal Mind, God, has created only good.

The real man has his being in Spirit, and hence his state of being is spiritual. His welfare depends upon spiritual ideas alone, and his true substance is included in infinite Mind.

With what wonder and with what timid—almost unbelieving—hope have Christ Jesus' words as recorded by the beloved disciple John been received, "If a man keep my saying, he shall never see death" ( John 8:51 ). "Never see death"! Those three words resounded in the writer's thought at the time of the passing of a loved member of her family, and her interpretation of them as a divine command immediately lifted from her all sense of grief.

In speaking of the vision of a new heaven and a new earth which John beheld on the Isle of Patmos, Mrs. Eddy writes on page 573 of Science and Health: "This testimony of Holy Writ sustains the fact in Science, that the heavens and earth to one human consciousness, that consciousness which God bestows, are spiritual, while to another, the unillumined human mind, the vision is material.