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EARLY Hebrew writers, in poetic figures of speech, likened the lion to many things, both good and bad. There is no doubt that these large, daring, and impressive animals roamed throughout ancient Palestine, causing the people more than a little concern in spite of their admiration for the beasts.

" TO live so as to keep human consciousness in constant relation with the divine, the spiritual, and the eternal, is to individualize infinite power. " Thus writes Mrs.

THE example which Christ Jesus, our Way-shower, gave and the promise which he gave that his followers should be able to follow that example have convinced Christians that their hope in the kingdom of God is heaven-born. That hope has often supplied strength to carry on against great odds.

WHAT a joy it is for individuals to learn in their study and application of Christian Science that the heavenly kingdom reigns within their true selfhood and that it can never be lost! They find that no matter what their circumstances are or how dark and doubtful their future may seem to be, their spiritual awakening to the facts of real being reveals to them the ever-present good at hand. Individuals experience restoration of their sense of good, health, and happiness as they come to realize in Christian Science the unreality of mortal existence and the ever-present reality of spiritual being.

EVERYONE has the divine right to be free from the drab routine and poverty of mortal existence. Regardless of human opinion to the contrary, man's life springs from God, Spirit, and not from matter.

IN the early days of the Christian Science movement, the testimony meetings now held on Wednesdays were held on Fridays. When Mrs.

IN Christian Science we learn how the scientific action of God, divine Mind, eradicates sickness and sin. Mrs.

IN one of Turgenev's novels, two of the characters discuss the subject of happiness. One of them wonders why present enjoyment "seems an intimation of some measureless happiness existing apart somewhere rather than actual happiness.

TWO significant questions that the Christian Scientist can ask himself in any situation are: What is God's demand? and, How am I fulfilling it? In Science and Health, Mrs. Eddy writes ( pp.

READERS of the early portions of the Bible are sometimes startled by the solemn warnings, set forth in the Ten Commandments and in many other passages, against both idolatry and error in their varied forms and disguises. Necessary as such warnings were under the circumstances of the establishment of ethics and true religion among the Hebrew tribes, and important as they still are in contributing to the maintenance of the lofty standards set forth by Christianity, how encouraging it is to find joy upheld, emphasized, and indeed commanded many centuries before Christ Jesus, the master Christian, gave it such a central place in his own teaching and practice! The book of Deuteronomy is consistent in its emphasis upon joy.