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IN the early 1870's, when a wrong impression of Christian Science was imposed on the public by an item in a Lynn, Massachusetts, newspaper, Mary Baker Eddy came to the public's defense. She wrote a correction and succeeded in having the editor publish it.

SOMETIMES one may hear it said, "I tried Christian Science and it didn't heal me. " Such a remark sounds as though the speaker had experimented with some widely advertised drug without benefit.

EVERYONE likes to feel that he is contributing something worth while to his environment; and this is natural, for such aspiration is based on a spiritual fact, the fact that every idea in God's universe is necessary, worthy, and productive of good. Men and women who are ignorant of man's unchanging status as the image and likeness, or reflection, of God often seem to be driven by such ungodly thoughts as selfinterest, pride, competition, and fear as they seek to find a place where they can be useful.

BECAUSE of his sure sense that God, all-powerful good, is the Father of man and the universe, and that the reflection, the emanation, of this perfection must be perfect, Christ Jesus could say to his followers ( John 14:27 ): "Peace I leave with you, my peace I give unto you: not as the world giveth, give I unto you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid.

MARY BAKER EDDY in her principal work, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," states definitely ( p. 275 ), "The starting-point of divine Science is that God, Spirit, is All-in-all, and that there is no other might nor Mind,—that God is Love, and therefore He is divine Principle.

IT is not surprising that a woman unaware of the mental nature of disease and burdened with a sense of fear turned to a Christian Science practitioner for help with but one thought in view, the healing of her physical body. When the practitioner explained to her that all discord comes from the erroneous concept of man as mortal and material, separated from Mind, and when the woman understood in a measure that there is no true existence apart from God, Spirit, she was healed.

IN her book "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" Mary Baker Eddy indicates that thought must extend beyond mere belief and faith, beyond materiality, beyond custom. While her revelation of Christian Science is complete and final, she offered many hints on relatively unexplored avenues of thinking, and she encouraged among her followers the habit of studying the Bible and her writings to ponder these hints and to write about them, thus reaching to higher levels of thought as fast as students could be made ready for a favorable reception of the ever-expanding truth of being.

HAVE you ever been tempted to believe that a change in your material circumstances or surroundings would solve your problems for you, or at least make it easier for you to solve them for yourself? If you have been so tempted, you have had much company. Even Jacob, whose spiritual growth finally earned for him the title of Israel, or the prince of God, was tempted to believe that he must escape because his brother Esau was angry with him.

GOOD management is essential in human affairs. Whether it be the conduct of business, the direction of school or social activities, the guidance of family matters, or control of one's personal affairs, good management is a necessity.

WHEN thought is lifted to the windows of heaven, divine harmony, there may be grasped at least a glimpse of the perfection which Mary Baker Eddy states underlies reality. If one closes the door of thought on material belief, shutting out the clamor of personal sense, and stands on mental tiptoe, expectant, eager, there will be unfolded from the heart of divinity a view that will abide in eternal remembrance.