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TWO young men were passing a branch Church of Christ, Scientist, one Sunday just when the congregation was dispersing after the service. One said to the other: "Have you noticed the happiness in the eyes of these Christian Scientists? I always thought religion made people sad.

MAN is defined in the Glossary of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy ( p. 591 ) as "the compound idea of infinite Spirit; the spiritual image and likeness of God; the full representation of Mind.

GOD is infinite, self-existent, changeless, perfect divine Being, or Mind. The prophet Malachi declared ( 3:6 ), "I am the Lord, I change not; therefore ye sons of Jacob are not consumed.

IN the thirty-second chapter of Isaiah we read, "And a man shall be as an hiding place from the wind, and a covert from the tempest; as rivers of water in a dry place, as the shadow of a great rock in a weary land. " This Christ-revelation of man as a refuge and rest brought much inspiration to one student of Christian Science when faced with the problem of vacating her rooms and finding a new home in a few days.

IN startling contrast to the general belief that all men are condemned by material law to limitation, imperfection, disease, age, and mortality comes Paul's immortal declaration to the Romans (8:1, 2) : "There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit. For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death.

" THE true consciousness is the true health. " If the world understood and accepted this challenging declaration made by Mary Baker Eddy in "Miscellaneous Writings" (p.

TO have a heritage is good. But an heir who is not aware of his inheritance is not blessed by its bestowals.

IT is the mission of the healing Christ to establish in human consciousness the fact which already exists in divine Science, namely, that Life is eternal. When complete spiritualization of thought is achieved, this fact in all its reality will appear and the belief of death will be destroyed.

IN the record of Jesus' birth, as related in the second chapter of Luke's Gospel, we are told,. "And she [Mary] brought forth her firstborn son, and wrapped him in swaddling clothes, and laid him in a manger; because there was no room for them in the inn.

"For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but mighty through God to the pulling down of strong holds" ONCE a year the world is accustomed to look back reverently through the centuries to the historic night when Christ Jesus was born and to review the treasured story of how the Wisemen came to him, led by a guiding star. Consecrated seekers today are constantly rewarded with glimpses of the Christ, Truth.