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The Psalmist said ( Ps. 119:165 ), "Great peace have they which love thy law: and nothing shall offend them.

Christ Jesus loved little children. He perceived their ability to grasp and to use spiritual truth, for he said ( Mark 10: 14 ), "Suffer the little children to come unto me, and forbid them not: for of such is the kingdom of God.

In his most famous oration, Patrick Henry, the noted American patriot, spoke lines which have echoed through history, but it is not always remembered that he asked, near the end of this often quoted address: "What is it that gentlemen wish? What would they have?" Perhaps no more stirring query could be directed today to the individual seriously in need of awakening himself to a challenge regarding his purpose in life, his true desires, motives, aims, and the extent of his earnest effort for their fulfillment. Paul epitomized his noble Christian aims for himself and for his fellow men when he wrote to the Philippians ( 3:13, 14 ), "Brethren, I count not myself to have apprehended: but this one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before, I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.

WHEN Mary Baker Eddy was working out the form of the services for her church, one of the problems before her was that of finding hymns which were in accord with the new teaching. It is not surprising that the wordings of many familiar hymns which she wished to use were not consistent with the teaching of Christian Science.

" CHRIST is the path, and Christ the prize," reads a line in a much-loved hymn in the Christian Science Hymnal ( No. 59 ).

THE most important instructions ever given to mankind are those contained in the Sermon on the Mount (Matt. 5—7).

IN the Glossary of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," Mary Baker Eddy gives the spiritual definition of "zeal" as, "The reflected animation of Life, Truth, and Love" ( p. 599 ).

" BELOVED , now are we the sons of God" ( I John 3:2 ). What an arresting statement this is! What power and freedom are ours when we accept and realize the truth contained therein! Christian Science has come to this age to reveal the nature of God and of man, made in His image and likeness.

COMPASSION has a liberating and healing effect when accompanied by the spiritual understanding of the real man's oneness with God, infinite good, as His reflection. To have Christlike compassion for an individual when we see him victimized by false beliefs of sickness, sin, or lack is to desire to free him from these illusions of mortal mind through the understanding of Christian Science.

A CHRISTIAN SCIENTIST had enjoyed a particular newscast during supper. However, when a sponsor began inserting as an advertisement for a patent medicine a highly dramatic, minutely detailed account of a certain bodily function, the listener hastened from the table and turned off the radio.