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As each year the Christmas season passes, many may exclaim, Oh, if we could only have the spirit of Christmas on every day of the year! Through God's great gift to this age of the Christ Science, or Christian Science, mankind is receiving the good tidings of a continuous, eternal Christmas. While we gratefully commemorate at Christmas time the birth of Jesus our Way-shower and his life of practical demonstration of the Christ, obedience to his command that we do the works which he did is the only meaningful celebration of his unique career.

In Paul's first epistle to the church at Corinth we find this arresting statement ( 15:45 ): "And so it is written, The first man Adam was made a living soul; the last Adam was made a quickening spirit. " Mary Baker Eddy gives an enlightening explanation of this verse on page 186 of her "Miscellaneous Writings," where she states: "In the creation of Adam from dust,—in which Soul is supposed to enter the embryo-man after his birth,—we see the material self-constituted belief of the Jews as referred to by St.

Elections in Christian Science churches afford glorious opportunities to demonstrate that God's government reigns on earth. Christian Scientists can more fully utilize these opportunities through a better understanding of the true concept of Church and of heaven and the relationship of one to the other.

Christian Science gives human consciousness a new basis. By making clear the absolute spirituality of man as the idea of God and the consequent unreality of material selfhood, it enables one to abandon mortal premises and to take the position confidently proclaimed by Paul ( Gal.

Christian Science teaches "that God is to be understood, adored, and demonstrated"( Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy, p. 472 ).

A YOUNG Christian Scientist was on her way to a Wednesday evening meeting in the branch Church of Christ, Scientist, of which she was a member. Contrary to her usual happy state of thought, this particular evening she was oppressed by a heavy mental load.

DURING the reign of the Roman emperor Domitian the persecution of the early followers of Jesus' teaching was very bitter. John, who understood these teachings perhaps better than any other of the twelve, was a source of great concern to those who feared the Christian religion and desired to stop its progress.

IN our Christian Science periodicals and in the Wednesday meetings in our churches many testimonies of gratitude for physical healings accomplished through the application of Christian Science are . given.

AS students of Christian Science, we need to be as alert to shut the door of our consciousness on the world's pictures of disturbed economic conditions as we are to shut it on the suggestions of disease, danger, or discord. We cannot believe that the so-called laws of economics—inflation and depression, strikes, and business cycles— affect man's true wealth, if we accept the fact of God's allness.

MARY BAKER EDDY was always giving. Regarding that great gift to the world, The Christian Science Monitor , she says ( The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and Miscellany, p.