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The student of Christian Science is soon aware that its teachings are for the healing of the nations no less than of the individual sick. He sees that it redefines and greatly simplifies the problem of world government and world peace, and that it also supplies the solution.

" THOU shalt have no other gods before me" ( Ex. 20:3 ).

IT will be noticed that frequently when our Master wished to refresh his thought with new inspiration, he would withdraw from the multitudes, sometimes seeking the solitude of a mountain place. Before he uttered those sayings which have since become known as the Sermon on the Mount, "he went up into a mountain: and when he was set," he taught his disciples.

NOT long ago at a Wednesday testimony meeting in a Christian Science church, a young woman stated that for a time she did not get the inspiration from Christian Science that she previously had. Upon searching her thought to find out what was wrong, she realized that although she had been reading the periodicals faithfully and attending church regularly, she had been studying the Lesson-Sermon in the Christian Science Quarterly only once or twice a week.

SPIRITUAL discernment is the perception of reality, of that which is true about God, man, and the universe. It exists wholly apart from the material senses.

THE evangelist Luke tells us that Jesus on one of his journeys arrived in a certain village, and there was received in the house of Martha, the sister of Mary and Lazarus. Mary sat at his feet and listened to him, while Martha was "cumbered about much serving.

HEALING in Christian Science is evidence of the coming of the Christ to human consciousness. It is the Christ that unveils the great fact of being that Life is God, Spirit, the infinite Mind conceiving man, its spiritual idea, in its own perfect likeness.

RUGGED mountains silhouetted in blue against a copper sky held the rapt attention of a mother and her two young sons. A wake of froth and swooping sea gulls followed a white ship out of the bay.

IN the first chapter of Genesis, God is revealed as the only creator. In the same chapter man is declared to be made in God's image, reflecting His dominion over all the earth.

TO awaken to the spiritual fact that man is God's image and likeness, and that the universe is created and controlled by God is the great need of today. Mortal mind claims to present a world of confusion, fear, and distress.