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PRAYERFUL study of the definition of "Church" which our God-directed Leader, Mary Baker Eddy, has given us ( Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, p. 583 ), reveals that the most acceptable contribution one can make to church is his daily realization and demonstration of spiritual truths in overcoming material beliefs.

IT is related in the fourth chapter of Luke's Gospel that Jesus was at one time led into the wilderness, where he was tempted of the devil, who ''said unto him, If thou be the Son of God, command this stone that it be made bread. " And we are told that "Jesus answered him, saying, It is written, That man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word of God.

CHRISTIAN SCIENCE is defined by its Discoverer and Founder, Mary Baker Eddy, in "Rudimental Divine Science"' ( p. 1 ), "As the law of God, the law of good, interpreting and demonstrating the divine Principle and rule of universal harmony.

"EACH individual is responsible for himself. " Much encouragement is to be found in these words of Mary Baker Eddy's in "Miscellaneous Writings" ( p.

THE main theme of Christian Science is that Truth, Spirit, is real, and that matter, error, is unreal. But this does not mean by any possible inference that we are to ignore or dismiss the specific suggestions of error which insistently seek our acceptance, or fail to replace such false beliefs with the specific truths of which they are but faulty counterfeits.

UNDER the marginal heading "Purity the path to perfection," Mary Baker Eddy writes in "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" ( p. 337 ), "In proportion to his purity is man perfect; and perfection is the order of celestial being which demonstrates Life in Christ, Life's spiritual ideal.

THE student of high school years is sure that there is nothing he cannot achieve if he will but put his mind to it. Undue cautiousness, which seems to come with adultism or experience, has not dampened his ardor for adventurous living.

IT is the nature of God to give. Hence, it must be natural for man to give.

INTO many problems of human existence the belief of loss enters—the loss of health, time, opportunity, funds, the human presence of some loved one, and so on. We can be grateful that Christian Science provides us with the means of meeting and overcoming this erroneous sense of loss through the realization of the ever-presence of infinite good, which we name God.

WHAT is our concept of ourselves, of our present, our past, our future, our life, health, and happiness? If it is based upon the understanding of the all-power and all-presence of God, it partakes of the infinite nature of good and includes the limitless opportunities which are man's. If, on the other hand, this concept of ourselves is based upon the theory of existence as set forth in the second chapter of Genesis, then thought is involved in a world of contradiction, of frustration, and of fear.