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IN the Gospel of John we read that when Jesus was being questioned by Pilate as to his status on this earth, he replied ( 18:37 ), "To this end was I born, and for this cause came I into the world, that I should bear witness unto the truth. " What was this truth to which Jesus was referring? Was it not the truth of God, man, and the universe? We first learn of Jesus' bearing witness to God at the age of twelve, when he tarried behind in Jerusalem after the feast of the Passover.

RECENTLY a member of a small Christian Science Society said to a friend in another city that what the society needed was more members to do some of its work. The friend helpfully pointed out that the real need was for more alertness, consecration, and devotion in the present membership.

WHEN Mary Magdalene hastened to the sepulcher on the day of resurrection to look for her Lord and Master, she found him not, and her heart was heavy. "Sir, if thou have borne him hence, tell me where thou hast laid him" were her sorrowful words to Jesus, who unexpectedly stood before her and whom she mistook for the gardener.

WE are told in the Bible that "the work of righteousness shall be peace; and the effect of righteousness quietness and assurance for ever. " There are a promise and a prospect in this verse which certainly merit careful consideration.

JESUS permitted neither time, place, nor circumstance to interfere with his healing work. One Sabbath day, when he was teaching in a synagogue, he observed a woman who could not straighten up.

EXPERIENCE shows that to place full trust in mere human means of caring for present or future needs is not the highest wisdom. Such trust often proves misplaced and disappointing because it is based on the false assumption that matter is dependable substance, whereas matter is limited, undependable, and substanceless and human means of acquiring its temporal benefits are,at best, conditional and uncertain.

I know not where His islands lift Their fronded palms in air; I only know I cannot drift Beyond His love and care. These beautiful and comforting words from the pen of John Greenleaf Whittier set forth his firm conviction in God's universal presence.

CHRIST JESUS once proclaimed to his hearers a most profound truth, the true meaning of which has not always been clearly understood by Christian thinkers. He said ( John 17:3 ), "This is life eternal, that they might know thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent.

Testimonies of healing of the appetite for tobacco and alcohol are frequently given at Wednesday testimony meetings in Christian Science churches and in the Christian Science periodicals. Christian Science not only destroys false appetites; it protects one from acquiring them.

A BOOKKEEPER by making a survey of his accounts at the end of each month proves that they are well kept and in perfect balance. This survey is called "taking a trial balance.