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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.

" Beloved , let us love one another.

Jesus said ( John 8:58 ), "Before Abraham was, I am;" and ( Matt. 28:20 ), "Lo, I am with you alway, even unto the end of the world.

The Bible records of the healings and parables of Christ Jesus prove an ever available treasure house to which we may go for an answer to the problems of modern life. The human heart yearning to do better may now, because of the coming of Christian Science, turn to the Christ, Truth, more understanding than ever to find the way of salvation.

The passing from human sight of so holy a man as Christ Jesus no doubt offered opportunity for friend and foe to indulge in damaging speculation concerning the import of his life and work. The twenty-fourth chapter of Luke's Gospel contains the record of two men who at the time of Jesus' resurrection were walking towards Emmaus.

When we keep looking to God, with our eyes fixed on Truth, our lives are transformed, our difficulties fade away, our fears grow less. When we can be still, can quiet fears and doubts, cease from outlining, and look up, knowing that God governs every event of our lives; when we cease wondering when the answer will come and how it will happen, and trust His constant care, then we begin to realize the truth of Jesus' words ( John 14:10 ), "The Father that dwelleth in me, he doeth the works.