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" YE have an unction from the Holy One, and ye know all things" ( I John 2:20 ). What a wonderful benediction! What inspiration and assurance must this message have carried to the students to whom it was written! The Apostle John was addressing those who had accepted the gospel or good news of Christianity.

IN the beautiful chapter entitled "Prayer" in the Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," Mary Baker Eddy sets forth the nature of true prayer—the prayer which is always answered. A careful study of this chapter teaches us how to turn to God as confidently as did the Psalmist when he sang ( Ps.

" WHAT does a Christian Science nurse do?" is a question often asked, even by students of Christian Science. In accord with Mary Baker Eddy's teaching in "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," the Christian Science nurse has a twofold task to perform.

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.