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PROBABLY the meaning that comes most frequently to our thought on hearing the word "coincidence" is that of a chance happening. But when Mary Baker Eddy uses this word in her textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," she does so in accordance with a less familiar meaning, namely, "Correspondence in nature, character, result, etc.

THROUGH its teaching of the wholly spiritual, immaterial nature of man, God's image and likeness, Christian Science brings to light the demonstrable truth that man's being is invulnerable. It is man's inseparability from Spirit, Life, God, which ensures his safety.

THE power and clarity of Jesus' teachings are due to one great fact: he understood and proved himself to be the Son of God, the spiritual idea of Mind, Spirit, and not a fleshly personality. Had Jesus believed in any degree that his real being originated in the flesh, his teachings would have been tainted, adulterated, and weakened by the admission of such a mistake.

ONE day a Christian Scientist, while hurrying along a city street, recalled an irritating circumstance that had occurred several weeks before. As she was thinking of this, something forcefully flew into her eye.

FOR many centuries the word "church" has been used with a variety of meanings. It may mean a place where people meet periodically to worship God.

A STUDENT of Christian Science had a great awakening to the scientific relationship of God and man when she was forced to release her child from the smothering bondage that her false sense of parentage and ownership had placed upon him. Working to see the nothingness of an oppressive physical ailment her son was manifesting, she declared the perfection of man in the image and likeness of God.

WHO among us would consent to being robbed of any good thing that was rightfully ours? The minute we became conscious of any such effort, how stoutly we would resist, how vehemently we would maintain our rights of possession and ownership! Yet not infrequently students of Christian Science are robbed of an immeasurable amount of good through the subtle argument of lack of time for spiritual study and activity. Often we hear the remark, "I just can't find time to read the Lesson-Sermon daily," or, "I'll try to find time to study.

IN the Gospel of Matthew ( chapter 3 ) we read of the baptism of Christ Jesus, after which "the Spirit of God descending like a dove" rested upon him. Then followed the benediction, "This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased.

CONFRONTED with present-day emphasis on human psychology and with the oft-heard expression, "That is good psychology," it is important to ask ourselves, "Just what is good psychology?" With her penetrating understanding of all our needs, our beloved Leader, Mary Baker Eddy, gives us the answer, an answer based on her realization that the true sense of psychology is not a mode of human thought analysis. In "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," under the marginal heading "Matter not medicine," she refers to psychology as "the Science of Spirit, God.

HUMAN invention has brought forth wonderful and speedy methods of movement and transportation in the modern world through the application of material power. But what shall we say of the divine power revealed in Christian Science, which in these same times frees the sick and the crippled from that which confines them, and bids them rise up and walk forth? The real man's unity with God, who is Mind, Spirit, Love, which this Science teaches, forms the basis for demonstrating our freedom.