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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.

" Follow the directions of God as simplified in Christian Science, and though it be through deserts He will direct you into the paths of peace. " So writes Mary Baker Eddy in "The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and Miscellany" ( p.

We need not submit to nor suffer adversity; we can triumph over it by reversing its claim to reality. God made all that has ever been made, and all His works are perfect.

There came a time in the lives of Abraham and his nephew Lot, so the thirteenth chapter of Genesis records, when they found that they could no longer dwell together because the land in which they were, was not able to support their combined herds and flocks. Furthermore, trouble arose between their respective herdsmen.

" Christian Science refutes everything that is not a postulate of the divine Principle, God," declares Mary Baker Eddy on page 364 of "Miscellaneous Writings. " And a little farther on in the same paragraph she continues, "It stands on this Scriptural platform: that He made all that was made, and it is good, reflects the divine Mind, is governed by it; and that nothing apart from this Mind, one God, is self-created or evolves the universe.

Our beloved Leader, Mary Baker Eddy, reminds us of a great need when she writes in the Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" ( p. 428 ), "The great spiritual fact must be brought out that man is , not shall be , perfect and immortal.

Many Christians have echoed the poignant words of the Apostle Paul ( Rom. 7:19 ), "The good that I would I do not: but the evil which I would not, that I do.

In answering a question as to her method of healing the sick, Mary Baker Eddy writes (Rudimental Divine Science, p. 8 ), "Be honest, be true to thyself, and true to others; then it follows thou wilt be strong in God, the eternal good.