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Our great Leader, Mary Baker Eddy, constantly listened for the still small voice of Truth, and when this voice told her to establish Christian Science lectures, she recognized the message as emanating from God, infinite Mind. Whatever emanates from Mind has a spiritual origin; it is clothed with inspiration and power and operates under Mind's directing.

From the moment one begins the study of Christian Science it is his privilege to prove the truths taught in the textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy. That our Leader was divinely inspired in her discovery of Christian Science cannot be doubted by anyone who has proved in his own experience the truth of a single proposition of this scientific religion.

Man , as the reflection of omniactive Spirit, eternally expresses fruitful activity. We read in the first chapter of Genesis, in the true record of creation, that God made man in His own image and likeness and that "God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it.

A Gardener at work with her rake unknowingly encroached upon a blue jay's cache—a walnut buried among the leaves. Like a flash the owner of the treasure was on hand to claim and defend his possession by swift darts and sallies and outraged squawkings.

Wilderness is a thought-provoking word, filled with unhappy connotations for the human heart. It brings to mind landscapes of unending desolation, barren, unproductive, and buffeted by fitful winds.

Have you a problem which seems reluctant to yield to Christian Science treatment? Have you seen fellow students struggling with tenacious error and needing intelligent encouragement? Then think back to the disciples who were unsuccessful in healing the lunatic boy, as recorded in the seventeenth chapter of Matthew's Gospel. To them Jesus gave a most heartening and encouraging lesson in faith.

The word spontaneity has a ring of joyous freedom—unlabored, effortless, and unrestricted. True spontaneity springs from the heart, like the spontaneity of a smile.

Throughout the ages men have engaged in garnering and dispensing the fragrance of flowers and spices. Householders have treasured their rose jars, filled with the spicy essence of sweet petals, and perfumers have built up a world-wide business in fragrances of all types.

There is no higher calling upon earth than to be a Christian Scientist. There is no greater demand upon the Christian Scientist than that he live the teachings of this Science.

Worldly wisdom often insists that opportunity knocks but once at everyone's door. But worldly concepts are based upon finite reasoning and are always limiting and wholly erroneous.