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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.

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.