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Expressed in all its rightness and fullness, the spiritual quality of joy is unquenchable. Rejoicing in constant, happy recognition of God and His infinite goodness, we can say, "All is well.

A Better understanding of the universality of God, as revealed by Christian Science, wipes out false pride and inherited prejudices, whether they be personal or chauvinist. A healing experience of one student of Christian Science, about which it has been this writer's privilege to know, indicates the grand possibilities for all.

Pilate , the Roman governor before whom Christ Jesus was tried, presented the people with a choice. He would set free either Barabbas, a notorious robber and murderer, or Christ Jesus.

In the Gospel of John we read the following words of Christ Jesus ( 14:16 ): "I will pray the Father, and he shall give you another Comforter, that he may abide with you for ever. " Christian Scientists everywhere rejoice daily that Jesus' prayer and prophecy have been fulfilled in Christian Science.

The question, What is our duty to our Leader? demands the earnest, prayerful attention of every Christian Scientist. Through alertness and devotion we must constantly be gaining a broader, clearer understanding of our obligation to the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, Mary Baker Eddy.

It is widely known that Mary Baker Eddy, the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, established the precedent of dedicating Christian Science church edifices only after they have been fully paid for. When the Original Mother Church edifice was in the process of construction and her followers were laboring faithfully to supply the necessary money and to see that the construction work was not allowed to cease, our Leader inspired her followers to give evidence of willingness to pay the price of steady spiritualization of thought and life.

In speaking of Jesus' healing mission and its permanent dispensation through Christian Science, Mary Baker Eddy says in "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" ( p. 150 ), "Now, as then, signs and wonders are wrought in the metaphysical healing of physical disease; but these signs are only to demonstrate its divine origin,— to attest the reality of the higher mission of the Christ-power to take away the sins of the world.

Error seems very real and troublesome and tenacious sometimes. The truth appears to be shut out or trodden down, but in reality it cannot be; truth is never less than truth itself.

I climb , with joy, the heights of Mind, To soar o'er time and space; I yet shall know as I am known And see Thee face to face. The inspired thought of these much-loved words, found in Hymn No.

After Christ Jesus had received the blessed benediction from our heavenly Father ( Matt. 3:17 ), "This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased," he went into the wilderness and fasted forty days and forty nights.