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Is there a place where one may go and find the solution to any problem, whether individual, national, or international? If so, would he not go there often? And to save himself the journey so many times, might he not eventually make that place his permanent abode? There is such a place; there are directions for getting there; and there is room for everyone to abide therein. David was at different times confronted with problems of personal relationships and human position.

For centuries the Christ had been anticipated in prophecy by devout Jews as King, Counsellor, Wonderful, Prince of Peace, and other names indicating an expectation that the Messiah would wield worldly power or rulership. During and following his earthly sojourn, Jesus of Nazareth was known by many titles.

It was while he was on the mount and the glory of the Lord rested there that Moses received God's instructions for the making of the tabernacle. The admonition to see that all the details were carried out according to the pattern which was shown him in the mount, indicates that Moses was learning that divine inspiration is necessary for the perfection of any pattern.

Students of Christian Science seek an ever clearer understanding of the absolute perfection of God and His image, His compound idea, man. They find in human experience blessing and healing as they see more clearly that man, spiritual man, the only man, is indeed precisely as well, as strong, as intelligent, and as harmonious as his Father.

Biblical incidents, viewed in the light which Christian Science throws upon the Scriptures, gain a new significance. The familiar account of Peter's deliverance from prison, for instance, as related in the twelfth chapter of Acts, becomes timely.

All who would discern and deal with the basic cause of disease and heal metaphysically must know how to make the distinction between the transient human body and man's true spiritual identity. All may learn through the God-inspired writings of Mary Baker Eddy how to make this distinction between the real and the unreal and demonstrate the scientific fact of being.

" What hast thou in the house?" This was the startling question Elisha asked of the widow who had appealed to him for help when the creditor came to take her two sons as bondmen. Her answer ( II Kings 4:2 ), "Not any thing.

OF no other newspaper are the words, "News is the benediction that follows prayer," so true as of The Christian Science Monitor, the international daily newspaper founded in 1908 by Mary Baker Eddy as the crowning accomplishment in her establishment of five spiritually uplifting periodicals. The student who is accustomed to daily reading of the Christian Science periodicals is quick to recognize the distinction in their individual functions and the specific purpose of each.

KNOWING our Leader is a necessity for all who would progress in individual spiritual unfoldment. Being the one in this age who discovered Christ's healing and saving power, Mary Baker Eddy will always be the Leader of those who are following this revelation of divine Truth.

THE opening chapter of the Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," is entitled "Prayer. " In this remarkable chapter the author, Mary Baker Eddy, out of the fullness of her revelation, discloses the meaning and power of true prayer and the motives for praying.