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" HOW can I progress most rapidly in the understanding of Christian Science?" This question, which the student of Christian Science frequently asks himself, is answered by Mary Baker Eddy in the textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures. " Her counsel may well be studied carefully ( p.

SO accustomed have mortals become to viewing certain forms of matter as solid that they may seldom think of this descriptive term "solid" as capable of being applied to Spirit. But in Christian Science the mortal sense of things is reversed.

WHEN the storm raged against him at Golgotha, the Master allowed it to do so and to assume such proportions as men willed. This he did in order to give proof of the inability of matter to injure in any way true being.

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.