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THE words "law" and "order" are often used together, and rightly so, for in true law there is necessarily order. The very essence of law is order.

GOD is All. He includes and maintains all individuality.

TRUE service lies in our obedience to the spiritual laws of God. It begins with our understanding that God, Spirit, is the only creator and that man is spiritual, wholly good, created by God in His own image and likeness.

WHAT is the law of good? Does it operate continuously in our behalf? How may we learn to apply it more scientifically? How do God's angels uphold His law? These are important questions to all of us. The law of good is the law or incontestable will of God.

WHEN the children of Israel were plagued with the poisonous serpents in the wilderness, wisdom bade Moses make a serpent of brass and lift it up. Those who looked upon the serpent were healed of the sting.

IN his epistle to the Philippians, Paul wrote ( 2:5 ), "Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus. " One meaning of the word "let" is to allow something to take place without interference.

IN the sixteenth chapter of Matthew we read of Christ Jesus' questioning of his disciples, evidently seeking to awaken them to a higher recognition of his spiritual selfhood and mission. To his question, "Whom say ye that I am?" Peter replied, "Thou art the Christ, the Son of the living God.

BECAUSE Christian Science has proved to its followers to be such a practical, provable, healing religion, it naturally follows that they would like their loved ones, friends, and neighbors, yes, all mankind, to share in its beneficence. It is a commendable thing to want to see more and more people attracted to the Christ, Truth, and to see this attraction manifested in ever-increasing church attendance and membership.

THE office of Reader in a Church of Christ, Scientist, is a sacred trust and requires consecration, unselfed love, wisdom, and, above all, an understanding of the words of Christ Jesus as recorded in the Gospel of John ( 8:28 ): "I do nothing of myself; but as my Father hath taught me, I speak these things. " As a servant of God and under His orders, the Reader should aim first of all to please Him; then to bring out the words of Truth so clearly and joyfully that the message rather than the one giving the message stands out to the thought of the listener.

IN an apparently material, limited, and changeable world, amenable to conflictive, disruptive forces, there is a widely accepted theory that all things are subject to depreciation—a lessening of values—resulting from the effects of time, wear, fashion, or usage. To this unstable premise the entire human economy appears to conform.