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Peace is the pearl which individuals and nations have been striving to possess since time immemorial. Isaiah foretold the coming of peace when he described the Messiah, or Christ, as "The Prince of Peace.

In almost every avenue of human activity and endeavor it is necessary at times for one to identify himself. Travelers, especially, must have at hand adequate means of identification.

Mortals are indifferent to the things of Spirit, and to the Science of Christianity, which pertains to the things of Spirit. "And why," asks the consecrated Christian Scientist, "do some of those who call themselves Christian Scientists seem so immersed in unimportant material doings?" The answer must be that they are more interested in the daily happenings of human experience than they are in eternal reality and in learning to know God and serve mankind.

Jesus' inspired prayer at the grave of his friend Lazarus was perhaps as startling to his audience as was the visible proof of eternal Life which immediately followed. In anticipation of his marvelous victory over death and the grave he said ( John 11:41, 42 ): "Father, I thank thee that thou hast heard me.

Christian Science, through Mary Baker Eddy, its Discoverer and Founder, is teaching the world that God, and God alone, God as infinite Mind, as divine Life, Truth, Love, governs and sustains all His creation. The revelation of Christian Science comes to a race of men educated to believe that evil is real and powerful and that materiality largely governs their life experience.

CHRIST JESUS ' demonstration, in his scientific sonship with God, of the infinite ability of Spirit was also the demonstration, for all mankind, of the inability of corporeality. Every proof of Spirit's allness which his words and works exemplify is also proof of the nothingness of the supposititious opposite of that allness: corporeal sense, denounced by Jesus as both lie and liar, and appearing to itself to have identity as mortal man.

WHAT incomparable satisfaction is experienced when thought rises above a finite, personal sense of existence and the divine Mind is joyously accepted as the only Mind—the only I, or Ego! Immediately the woes which come of sinful, fleshly thinking begin to fade from consciousness. The human mind, so called, has been in a measure put off, and God, or Mind, ever aware of His own indivisible oneness and allness, His own immaculate perfection and indestructible harmony, is present as man's only Mind.

IN a terse sentence concluding the chapter on Christian Science Practice in "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," Mary Baker Eddy admonishes ( p. 442 ), "Christian Scientists, be a law to yourselves that mental malpractice cannot harm you either when asleep or when awake.

DO students of Christian Science have problems? If so, do their problems differ from those of others? Yes, students of Christian Science do seem to have their problems. And all the humanly perplexing questions, situations, or circumstances which are common to mankind are the same which confront students of Christian Science.

HOW clearly James answers the question, "Who is a doer of the Word?" in the first chapter of his epistle! How emphatically he enjoins us: "Be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves. For if any be a hearer of the word, and not a doer, he is like unto a man beholding his natural face in a glass: for he beholdeth himself, and goeth his way, and straightway forgetteth what manner of man he was.