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A THRONG of people stood in reverent silence listening to the words of a great leader. It must have been a dramatic, awe-inspiring occasion, and although it took place more than three thousand years ago, the words spoken at that time are as important and pertinent to us today as they were to those ancient Israelites who first heard them.

WE sometimes hear it said, "If only the true, practical Christianity of Jesus' day could be with us today, universal understanding and harmony would reign!" That true Christianity—the pure, undefiled, and spiritually joyous way of thinking and living of the primitive Christians—is indeed here today and is clearly revealed in Christian Science. This truly wonderful fact is being proved daily by thousands of consecrated students of this Science.

IN his Sermon on the Mount, Christ Jesus places emphasis on the spiritual value of humility when he declares ( Matt. 5:5 ), "Blessed are the meek: for they shall inherit the earth.

IN God's infinite, perfect, and eternal universe, which is wholly spiritual, there has been no yesterday and there will be no tomorrow. God and His expression, man, are forever at the standpoint of now.

UNDER the marginal heading "God's allness learned," Mary Baker Eddy sets forth the basis of her discovery in "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" ( pp. 109, 110 ): "The three great verities of Spirit, omnipotence, omnipresence, omniscience,—Spirit possessing all power, filling all space, constituting all Science,— contradict forever the belief that matter can be actual.

ONE cannot conceive of the principle of mathematics as variable or as deficient in any respect. It is inviolate, flawless, and so is every figure that it includes.

NO more imperative need is pressing itself upon humanity today than the irresistible demand for progressive change. "The time for thinkers has come," declares Mary Baker Eddy in the textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" (Pref.

Christian Science reveals man's true identity to be the perfect child of God, not subject to deterioration, but ageless, deathless, and free. It makes plain to mankind the way of dominion over discord and decay through demonstration of man's oneness, or unity, with God.

Divine Mind's activity is effortless. It is the harmonious unfoldment of spiritual ideas.

Christian Science denounces error in all its forms as suppositional. The Science of Christianity knows no mistakes.