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Every progressive Christian Scientist knows how imperative it is that he constantly express more of the spirit of the Christ if he is to be a successful demonstrator of Truth. He knows that it is important for the same reason that he grow in understanding of the letter, or correct statement, of Christian Science.

What joy and peace come to our hearts when we hear the words of Phillips Brooks sung as a Christmas carol, the first verse of which is: O little town of Bethlehem, How still we see thee lie; Above thy deep and dreamless sleep The silent stars go by; Yet in thy dark streets shineth The everlasting Light; The hopes and fears of all the years Are met in thee tonight. This brings to us a mental picture of Bethlehem, quiet under the stars, awaiting the gentle coming of the Messiah, long foretold by the prophets.

The art of true listening and true hearing is learned through the undivided love of God, infinite good, which Christian Science quickens and sustains in every sincere student. But until this Science of Christianity taught us to reason only from the standpoint of God's allness—absolute Truth—our way of thinking was haphazard and its results were unsatisfying.

JESUS was walking by the Galilean sea when he saw the two brothers, Simon Peter and Andrew, who were fishermen. To these men the Master extended the simple, loving invitation ( Matt.

WHEN faced with a problem of disease, confusion, lack, or with some other difficulty, do we see the joy in overcoming it? God, good, is All-in-all, and the great joy of life is to prove this true. Facing whatever appears to contradict God's allness and goodness with the understanding of God as the only Mind shows the seeming contradiction to be but an error of material sense.

TODAY as in centuries past, impersonal evil in its various disguises is challenging the right of Christianity to survival. Today's warfare appears to be between political philosophies, but that is only its surface disguise.

THE one all-inclusive God can never know frustration or inactivity. Deity being omniactive Life, His creation cannot become stagnant, but must be rightly active.

IT was the Sabbath in Jerusalem. The pool of Bethesda, as the Gospel of John reveals, was the gathering place for invalids who had been informed that at certain times an angel would descend into the pool, stir up the water, and give it healing power, so that the first one who entered would be healed.

GOD is cause. The entire universe is the effect of this divine and only cause.

IN the realm of human existence it is considered impossible for anything material to be in two places at once, to be here and at the same time to be somewhere else. Yet the science of mathematics is always available everywhere, never confined partially or wholly to any one place.