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How frequently one carelessly accepts the offhand remark, "That's just like a woman," or, "Men are like that. " Christian Science challenges such comments, which usually draw attention to unlovely characteristics, for it teaches that all undesirable traits are inversions of good and as such cannot be attached to spiritual man, who, we are told in the Bible, is God's offspring ( Gen.

In talking with his disciples on one occasion Christ Jesus felt constrained to call attention to the type of gifts which he observed being cast into the temple treasury. He had been warning them against the conduct of the scribes—their desire to walk in long robes, to love greetings in the market place, to hold the highest seats in the synagogues, to occupy the chief rooms at feasts, and, for a show, to make long prayers.

" The glorious Lord will be unto us a place of broad rivers and streams; wherein shall go no galley with oars, neither shall gallant ship pass thereby. " In exquisite imagery Isaiah (33:21) thus typifies the bounty and freedom, the effortlessness, and the ever-present grace and loveliness of real being.

The fifth commandment states, "Honour thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long upon the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee" ( Ex. 20:12 ).

Watchfulness and alertness have always been accepted as most desirable qualities, provided they are accompanied by wise and prompt action whenever the need arises. A sixteen-year-old daughter of a lighthouse keeper in Australia was recently presented with a plaque, not only in recognition of her own fortitude under adverse circumstances, but also as a mark of grateful acknowledgment of the work done by lighthouse keepers generally in their devotion to duty, their watchfulness, and their love of their fellow men in helping to keep the sea lanes safe.

Although the word Soul is not directly used in the Bible as a synonym for God, it was revealed to Mary Baker Eddy through her search of the Scriptures that in its highest significance Soul is God, Spirit. And she so uses it in her revelation of the Science of being.

Christ Jesus taught many valuable lessons by the forceful and intelligent use of parables. His pure spirituality, together with his great love for mankind, manifested in a deep longing to heal, redeem, and make clear the way of a complete salvation for all throughout all time, motivated his mighty mission.

When Mary Baker Eddy discovered the Science of Jesus' teachings, she saw that it was based upon divine Principle. In order that this Science might be more generally recognized and its Principle understood, the wise Leader of Christian Science established within the organization of The Mother Church a Board of Lectureship.

The leading characteristic of the man Moses, the great seer, was the longing to deliver the oppressed. Again and again it was manifested before his life task was given him.

" Conscientious implies scrupulous, often painstaking, observance of duty," says a dictionary. Mary Baker Eddy has this to say on the subject of conscientiousness in "Miscellaneous Writings" ( p.