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The lives of Jesus, our Master, and of Mary Baker Eddy, our Leader, were filled with active love for God and man. The New Testament is replete with parables pointing to Jesus' loving and compassionate solution of the problems which came before him.

THE ever-presence of good is recognized through spiritual discernment—the intelligent realization of spiritual facts, or the understanding of being as spiritual. An appreciation of good received in the past often hastens or enhances one's enjoyment of good in the present.

IN her Message to The Mother Church for 1902, Mary Baker Eddy writes (p. 14) : "I suggest as a motto for every Christian Scientist,—a living and life-giving spiritual shield against the powers of darkness,— 'Great not like Cæsar, stained with blood, But only great as I am good.

In the Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," Mary Baker Eddy makes the following arresting statement ( p. 14 ): "Become conscious for a single moment that Life and intelligence are purely spiritual,— neither in nor of matter,—and the body will then utter no complaints.

In frequent communion services the orthodox Christian world commemorates the last supper which Christ Jesus ate with his disciples on the eve of his crucifixion. Taking literally his command ( Luke 22: 19 ), "This do in remembrance of me," they perpetuate this sacrament with the material symbols of bread and wine.

When Moses asked, "What is his [God's] name?" God declared, "I AM THAT I AM. " God is the only I, or Ego.

In early summer whenever the writer sets out into the woods to look for wild blackberries, she is always reminded of the similarity of this experience to the one of seeking and finding the truths concerning God and man, as revealed by Christian Science, and of the harvesting of its many blessings. When seeking the sweetly flavored berries, one sets out with great expectancy, looking on each side of the road and picking here and there.

WHILE seeking divine guidance to solve a problem, a student of Christian Science was led to this question in "An Allegory" by Mary Baker Eddy ( Miscellaneous Writings, p. 327 ) : "Wilt thou climb the mountain, and take nothing of thine own with thee?" The words stood out with startling clearness, and for days the question seemed to repeat itself.

THE spontaneous affection which beginning students of Christian Science generally feel for the Church of Christ, Scientist—The Mother Church and its branches—does not diminish, but is strengthened and becomes still more firmly grounded as they advance in understanding and experience. It assumes more and more the character of joyful, yet matter-of-fact, appreciation of this Church as a superbly wrought instrument for the enlightenment and redemption of mankind.

In the summer of 1948 the Olympic Games brought together young men and women from many countries in friendly rivalry. Beautiful pictures were published of youthful runners bearing the flaming torch across Europe to its destination, one torch lighting the next one till the long race reached its dramatic close.