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There has been a widespread and growing tendency on the part of mankind during the past few years to formulate and accept regimentation as a way out of the complexities of human living. Contrariwise, individualism with its independence of thought and action has been put on the defensive and its value to the masses questioned.

The world's discoverers have been the world's benefactors because their work has enabled mankind to abandon limited for less limited points of view. But Mary Baker Eddy's discovery of Christian Science transcends in importance all other discoveries, because it reveals the spiritual, hence indestructible and eternal, nature of the universe including man, and shows how spiritual facts understood can be employed to solve human problems.

In Deuteronomy (4:9) is this statement: "Take heed to thyself, and keep thy soul diligently. " The Christian Scientist recognizes that when the word "soul" is not a definite synonym for God it signifies, according to the context, spiritual or material sense.

In her textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," Mary Baker Eddy, the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, links healing with light. Light and healing—these terms are practically synonymous, for Mrs.

ONE evening, after cycling all day, two girls were approaching a village where they hoped to find accommodation for the night. One of them, a Christian Scientist, felt a great sense of joy as they neared this little town, for even as she thought of the need for rest, refreshment, and shelter came these words from the twenty-third Psalm : "Thou preparest a table before me.

IN James ( 1:17 ) we read, "Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and cometh down from the Father of lights, with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning. " Let us consider a few of these divine gifts that come from the great Giver.

AS ordinarily considered, rest, like time, is a relative condition of the human mind. Its nature and requirements differ greatly with different persons and circumstances.

FREQUENTLY in our human experience we are confronted with the necessity of choosing one of several courses of action. We hear those who make wise decisions regarding employment, financial arrangements, political issues, and social events spoken of as having good judgment, and those whose decisions are unwise as having bad judgment.

IN studying the life and works of Christ Jesus in the light of Christian Science, we discover that all his efforts were directed towards presenting his knowledge of God and the real man to humanity. Unlike philosophers of the past and present searching for man's origin in matter and hopelessly defeated in their search, Christ Jesus, looking beyond matter, with the natural spiritual perception of the Son of God, placed man forever at his eternal source, in and of the Father.

A TREASURED privilege is that of membership in The Mother Church. It indicates a step in the individual's journey from sense to Soul that presages a laying aside of much useless baggage.