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THE divine impulsion which led Mary Baker Eddy to ordain the Bible and the Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," as the universal pastor of the Church of Christ, Scientist, is one of the many outstanding examples of her farsighted leadership of the Christian Science movement. After her discovery of the Science of Christianity, Mrs.

" CHRIST cannot come to mortal and material sense, which sees not God. This false sense of substance must yield to His eternal presence, and so dissolve.

HOW timely is the Psalmist's query ( Ps. 2:1 ), "Why do the heathen rage, and the people imagine a vain thing?" The Psalmist must have understood the impotence of error when confronted by Truth, for he continues, "He that sitteth in the heavens shall laugh: the Lord shall have them in derision.

IT would startle most laymen and some lawyers to be told that everything entitled to the name of law has a deific origin. They would be astonished by the assertion that the law of the land under which we live stems from the Ten Commandments.

THAT which is true is inevitable. There is no getting around it or away from it.

WITH the advent of the child Jesus angelic voices proclaimed God's imperishable gift to the world of a Saviour destined to awaken earth-bound mortals through Christ to their eternal inheritance as sons of God, made in His likeness, spiritual, perfect, and forever free. The shepherds heard the joyful angel message of peace and good will to all mankind and made it known abroad.

IT is often said that there are two kinds of people in the world, the realists and the idealists. The realist, according to this theory, is concerned with the material universe and man, with what he sees before him and with what he considers from the basis of the physical senses to be facts.

IF man is created by God, Spirit, and if all that exists is divine Mind and its idea, how, when, and where did the belief of material existence originate? This is a question which presents itself to almost every student of Christian Science. Right reasoning alone can supply the answer.

MINDFUL of the statement on page 269 of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy, "Metaphysics resolves things into thoughts, and exchanges the objects of sense for the ideas of Soul," the student of Christian Science takes much the same course with thoughts that the research chemist does with matter. Whereas the latter examines, analyzes, and studies the nature and composition of so-called material substances to see how they act and what they may be used for, the Christian Scientist examines thoughts under the microscope of his growing understanding of spiritual being.

THE words in the title are prescribed in the order of services in the Manual of The Mother Church and are read before the testimony period at each Wednesday meeting in The Mother Church and in all branch churches and societies. The first portion of the meeting is devoted to the singing of hymns, the reading of selections from the Bible and from "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy, and prayer.