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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.

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.