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ON a hillside of Galilee, centuries ago, the greatest teacher the world has ever known gave to his disciples that wonderful treatise commonly known as the Sermon on the Mount. At the close of this discourse the Master told them of two builders, one of whom built his house upon a rock, "and the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house; and it fell not: for it was founded upon a rock" ( Matt.

MANY times in the Scriptures we are told of those who lifted up their eyes. Moses used the words to describe Abraham's attitude when three angels appeared and revealed to him the fate which was to befall Sodom and Gomorrah ( Gen.

" YE shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free. " These familiar words of our Master, Christ Jesus, recorded in the Scriptures ( John 8:32 ) and written on the walls of many Christian Science branch church auditoriums, are very frequently quoted without sufficient respect being given to the import of their proviso.

BUSINESS men and women the world over are in the midst of reconversion —the work of rehabilitating, re-establishing, and rebuilding business. They are hard at work refitting factories, reviving markets, renovating distribution methods, renegotiating contracts between management and labor, and reinvesting capital in peaceful enterprises.

In the world of today there is an unusual amount of shifting, replacing, and adjusting going on in governments and in political alignments, foreign and domestic. Men, women, and children manumitted from war bondage are either returning to their native lands and former occupations or striving to evolve new patterns of living in the conditions in which they now find themselves.

When Leonardo da Vinci was painting "The Last Supper," he would sometimes stand before the fresco for hours deep in contemplation. Days passed and he did not take up a brush.

Great benefit may be had from considering particular aspects of the life of her to whom the Science of the Christ has been finally and completely revealed, the beloved Leader of Christian Science, Mary Baker Eddy. Recently there came vividly to thought the picture of the simple ceremony of her ordination as pastor of her Church.

Paul , yearning to free the Corinthians from pagan entanglements, appealed to them thus ( II Cor. 6:17 ): "Come out from among them, and be ye separate, saith the Lord, and touch not the unclean thing; and I will receive you.

Early in the history of the Christian Science movement Mary Baker Eddy, the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, stressed the necessity for a newspaper published and edited by Christian Scientists to counteract the evil influence of the unscrupulous press of that time. Not until Christian Science had encircled the globe and become a world movement did she found the last of the Christian Science periodicals, The Christian Science Monitor , an international daily newspaper.

Mary Baker Eddy , the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, writes in the Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" ( p. 392 ): "Stand porter at the door of thought.