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REFORMATION is a great step in any individual's life. It implies a radical change for the better, progress towards a goal.

THE divine law of healing is not something which belongs to the past. Being a divine provision, this law always has been, is now, and always will be in continual operation.

A STUDENT of Christian Science rejoicingly wrote to another Christian Scientist of the lovely new suite into which a mutual friend had moved. She wrote of the twentieth-century office with the forward look in these words: "It is so representative of Christian Science in its expression of beauty and the best.

GOD will give us a crown of love for our efforts, for our sacrifices, for our accomplishments. How long do we have to wait for the reward of righteousness? The question is not how long must we wait, but how long does it take us to accept the reward? Christ Jesus heard and accepted God's acknowledgment of and pleasure in His Son right at the beginning of his ministry, at his baptism.

THE plan for peace so needed in the world today and which all may follow includes the overcoming of the fundamental causes for human warfare. Christian Science teaches that this overcoming is accomplished as God's law of harmony nullifies evil with the presence and power of infinite, eternal Truth.

CHRISTIAN SCIENCE is based on the allness of God, Spirit, and the perfection of His spiritual creations, man and the universe. This truth of God and man is revealed by the Christ, now and forever expressing the nature of God.

IN the textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," Mary Baker Eddy extends this rousing invitation to all mankind to take stock of where they stand in daily life ( pp. 307, 308 ): "Above error's awful din, blackness, and chaos, the voice of Truth still calls: 'Adam, where art thou? Consciousness, where art thou? Art thou dwelling in the belief that mind is in matter, and that evil is mind, or art thou in the living faith that there is and can be but one God, and keeping His commandment?'" To keep God's commandment is to know no other than the one Spirit, the governing Principle and the only Life of all that is.

IN June, 1903, at the time of the Annual Meeting of The Mother Church, The First Church of Christ, Scientist, in Boston, Massachusetts, Mary Baker Eddy invited all members to visit her home at Pleasant View, Concord, New Hampshire, to hear a message directly from her. This message, found in her book "The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and Miscellany" (pp.

CHRIST JESUS was once asked ( Luke 10:29 ), "Who is my neighbour?" His simple answer contained in the Bible parable of the good Samaritan has set, from that day on, a standard for world brotherhood. To a Christian, the good Samaritan represents a perfect example of unselfed love in action, for he interrupted his scheduled journey, stopped what he was doing, and without a moment's hesitation came to the side of the injured traveler.

ALL the offices in Churches of Christ, Scientist, require conscious closeness to the divine Mind, God, the source of all inspiration, guidance, and activity. In no office is this more obviously true than in that of First Reader or Second Reader.