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Making a living occupies the attention of men during a large part of every day. They have widely differing views of what it depends upon and how it is accomplished.

While studying the weekly Lesson-Sermon, a student of Christian Science found herself reading and rereading this statement on page 333 of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy: "Throughout all generations both before and after the Christian era, the Christ, as the spiritual idea,—the reflection of God,—has come with some measure of power and grace to all prepared to receive Christ, Truth. Abraham, Jacob, Moses, and the prophets caught glorious glimpses of the Messiah, or Christ, which baptized these seers in the divine nature, the essence of Love.

Christian Science is lifting Christendom's concept of Scriptural prophecy from the level of what is more or less mystical to the position of the foretelling of the natural operation of divine law. Our beloved Leader, Mary Baker Eddy, has given us this definition of "prophet" in the Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" ( p.

The Christian Scientist is proving that God's beneficence is never absent, never held in abeyance; that His goodness is never reserved for a convenient time or season. On the contrary, prayer—communion with God—lifting thought to the height of spiritual consciousness, brings prompt results, manifested by healing, joyousness, and sustained peace—man's eternal possessions.

The first instantaneous healing experienced by a student of Christian Science through the application of this Science is a sacred experience indeed. Not alone is he grateful for the physical easement, but the healing often represents to him a monumental event in his spiritual progress.

IN a world of widely differing interests and pursuits there is one quest which always has been and still is common to all mankind—the quest for health and continuity of life. For centuries this search has proved largely unfruitful because health has been sought in matter, where it cannot be found.

ACKNOWLEDGMENT and acceptance of man's perfection and wholeness as the basis of thought and action are warranty of harmony, success, and health in human experience. But whatever is untrue about God and His representative, man, must be mentally retracted — in other words, unsaid — -lest it adulterate consciousness.

EACH student of Christian Science should ask himself occasionally, What is my attitude toward this Science of Christianity? If one regards Science solely as a means by which human desires can be satisfied, he is far from being a genuine Christian Scientist. If one's attitude toward it is mainly a selfish one, that is, if his aim is simply to further his own human interests, he has failed to understand this Science.

THE very word pioneers brings up a picture of courage, devotion, faith, and hope. Gratefully the world pays tribute to those pioneers who through the centuries have launched into deep and uncharted seas.

" THE whole progress of business .