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SCARCELY two thirds of a century has passed since a little band of pioneer Christian Scientists first took their stand for the scientific revelation of Truth before a doubting world and organized The Mother Church. Gradually, through convincing demonstration of the practical power of the interpretation of the Scriptures revealed to their Leader, Mary Baker Eddy, they won increasing numbers to their Cause, and today Christian Science is regarded by a large proportion of informed and unbiased people as one of the respected religions of the world.

EVERYBODY is interested in prosperity. The individual usually seeks it through the sweat of his brow, or through the shrewdness of his mental processes.

CHRISTIAN SCIENCE reveals the glorious fact that all reality is united in one supreme and infinite cause and is subject only to the eternal unfoldment of good. This spiritual unity of God and His creation establishes the continuity of all existence and is made manifest through the operation of divine law in human consciousness.

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.