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INTELLIGENT obedience to the Ten Commandments is a prerequisite to a demonstrable knowledge and successful practice of Christian Science. As the children of Israel obediently accepted the demands of the Mosaic Decalogue, so today those of both Jewish and Christian faiths base their pattern for daily living upon the same premise.

IN the twenty-first chapter of St. John's Gospel is an account of one of the most beautiful incidents in the earthly experience of our Master—his last breakfast with his disciples in the early morning on the shore of the Galilean Sea.

PROBABLY the great majority of those who have taken up the study of Christian Science have done so either because of dissatisfaction with orthodox scholastic teaching about the nature of God and man or in the hope of gaining freedom from the beliefs of sickness, sin, and other discords of the flesh. They have felt a real need for a more satisfactory sense of existence than they knew how to obtain.

CHRISTIAN SCIENCE springs from God. It is the appearing of the self-assertion of Deity, measurably perceived through the mist of so-called human consciousness.

WHERE is good? This may seem an elementary question to students of Christian Science and others who have learned in some degree that God is good, and that He is everywhere. Yet do not some of us often find ourselves looking for good, virtually chasing it, as if it were to be found in some places but not in others —not, of all places, in us? Jesus declared ( Luke 17:21 ), "Neither shall they say, Lo here! or, lo there! for, behold, the kingdom of God is within you.

The battalion column wound its way into camp on the completion of an arduous march. Weary and dusty, the men plodded on, desiring only a meal and rest.

One of the writer's university professors frequently admonished his students to do some worthy thing each day, even though disinclined to do so, and to continue in the doing until the disinclination was mastered. "This," he said, "is self-discipline.

One of the many reasons why Christian Science continues to attract an ever-increasing number of thoughtful men and women into its ranks is that its teachings are both logical and practical. Mystery, mysticism, or impractical idealism no longer interests mankind as it once did, nor does it meet the human yearning for a better understanding of life and its meaning.

Most newcomers to Christian Science who begin their study with an open and receptive thought are impressed with the healing and redemptive nature of its teaching. Step by step the beauty, richness, and value of its revelations are unfolded, and the Holy Scriptures, upon which Christian Science is based, cease to be a closed book.

Events in the life of the Hebrew prophet Elisha, viewed in the light of Christian Science, furnish helpful examples of the timeless appearing of the Christ in human consciousness, instances of the unfoldment in thought of the spiritual identity of man and his God-bestowed dominion. It will be recalled that, although he recognized the importance of Elijah's first appearance to him while he was plowing, Elisha delayed a little his acceptance of this call to follow the prophet.