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TWO prosperous Christian Scientists were one day reviewing their demonstrations of true substance. While gratefully emphasizing the growth Spiritward, which the reflection of humility, spiritual understanding, and love had made evident in his life, one said: "When I first had a casual interest in Christian Science, I was, figuratively speaking, at the bottom of the financial barrel.

IN our rapidly changing world, moral courage is very much needed, for to the physical sense of things there is no place of security, no guarantee of safety, no certainty of refuge. However, moral courage enables us to face calmly the most disturbing situations.

IT is recorded in the tenth chapter of Matthew's Gospel that the Master, Christ Jesus, called together his twelve disciples and gave them power to cast out unclean spirits and to heal all manner of disease and sickness. He then sent them forth with the command to preach the gospel of the kingdom, to heal the sick, raise the dead, cleanse the lepers, and cast out devils.

" THERE was a man sent from God, whose name was John. The same came for a witness, to bear witness of the Light, that all men through him might believe" ( John 1:6, 7 ).

THE saying, "You can't keep a good man down," expresses a vital truth, for in Christian Science we learn that a good man reflects God, good, who is irrepressible Love, irresistible Life. The qualities of God are reflected in one's consciousness and reveal those spiritual forces that bring forth healing, resurrection, and redemption from all the ills of a weary world.

WHAT is Christmas? Through the teachings of Christian Science we find that Christmas might be understood as a divine state of consciousness, wherein Christ, Truth, has come to the understanding, dispelling the errors of material sense and replacing them with the realities of divine Science. Christ, the true idea of God, comes not at any specific time or season other than at the time when the human heart has yielded to divine persuasion and has gladly received infinite Love's tender and enlightening messages.

THROUGHOUT her writings, Mary Baker Eddy insists upon God as ever-present good and consequently upon evil as never present, save as the misleading assumption of a mind that does not exist. Although this insistence may sound inconsistent to some persons, it does not warrant anyone's supercilious dismissal of the subject.

WE are living in an outstanding era of the world's history. It is the fulfillment of prophecy, the advent of the Comforter, and the fetters of materialism are dissolving before the might and majesty of Spirit.

In the business world, it has become an accepted practice to take periodic inventories in order to determine the extent of progress and to be certain that the business rests on a sound financial structure. The larger and more progressive businesses usually maintain continuing or daily inventory records.

It is evident from the Scriptural record that Christ Jesus did not urge men to be resigned to poverty. The instances in which the needs for food and supply were met all indicate that Jesus demonstrated dominion over lack to the same degree as over other forms of evil.