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IN the Old Testament it is recorded that devout men believed that they sometimes saw God's presence as light enveloped in a cloud, which they called the Shekinah. This symbol is referred to in the Bible as "a light.

DEDICATION of an individual or a church to God's service implies an unequivocal declaration of allegiance to God and an unremitting effort to maintain that loyalty. Turning to the Bible and our Leader's writings for further light on this subject and studying them with the help of dictionaries and concordances, we find the word "dedicate" closely allied to "devote" and "consecrate.

REVERENCE for and understanding of God's holy law precede our obedience to it. And this obedience lays the foundation upon which are built our health, happiness, supply, peace, and progress.

IT is more than sixty years since Mary Baker Eddy said that in scanning the newspapers of the day one naturally deduced that it was dangerous to live, and pointed out that the descriptions which the papers printed frightened many (see Miscellaneous Writings, p. 7).

SINCE demonstration in Christian Science is the result of prayer, study in Christian Science is directed toward gaining an understanding of right prayer; and in their daily lives Christian Scientists endeavor to show forth such prayers in right action. If a Christian Scientist has been praying for that Mind to be in him "which was also in Christ Jesus" ( Phil.

MATTER as cause or effect, as condition or the evidence of condition, is set aside by the first statement of Scripture, "God created the heaven and the earth" ( Gen. 1:1 ).

WHAT gratitude goes out from the heart of Christian Scientists to their beloved Leader, Mary Baker Eddy, for dispelling the mist in which the words and works of Jesus had become so enshrouded that his would-be followers, however earnestly they desired to do so, found it impossible to obey his commands to heal the sick and do the works which he did! The writer wondered in her childhood why men were not doing the things which Jesus told his followers to do—certainly, at least, not in the way he did, and he never indicated that there was any other way. When she was faced in early womanhood with the alternative of death or an operation which would leave her very delicate, a relative who had just taken up the study of Christian Science lent her a copy of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mrs.

THE title of this article is the marginal heading of a paragraph beginning on page 303 of the Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy. The paragraph itself elucidates the fact that God without His expression, man, would be without entity—real being—and that man's entity is his reflection of God.

AN ideal system of law should be based upon rules of custom and precedent which, when enforced, become a benefit to mankind. Certain characteristics are essential to the varied forms of legal systems.

IN the Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," Mary Baker Eddy writes under the marginal heading "Healthful theology" ( pp. 138, 139 ): "Our Master said to every follower: 'Go ye into all the world, and preach the gospel to every creature!