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When Jesus was born in Bethlehem, Herod believed that he wanted to kill Jesus. Why? To stop the oncoming Christ-light which would expose the nothingness of materiality.

Job , floundering in the morass of human opinions, cried ( Job 3:25 ), "The thing which I greatly feared is come upon me. " David, however, the inspired Psalmist, lifting his vision above the evidence of the deceitful senses, sang exultingly ( Ps.

Christian Science reveals the vast difference between material, wishful thinking and spiritual knowing. One takes place in the realm of belief; and the other in spiritual consciousness.

Loyalty is a royal word! It implies a stanch heart and a high cause. Loyalty is fortified by conviction.

Our work as Christian Scientists is naturally concerned in large part nowadays with various aspects of the war. It is clearly our privilege to know and prove that the power of God is not limited in relation to any of these aspects.

Healing often comes through unexpected avenues. A certain young girl, however, never dreamed that a party invitation would lead to the healing of the meager financial circumstances which attended her first year at the university.

It is important for the young Christian Scientist to watch carefully his attitude toward his fellow man. Those of us who have been serving in the armed forces the last two or three years have learned many valuable lessons about how to get along with people.

" The work of healing, in the Science of Mind, is the most sacred and salutary power which can be wielded," writes Mary Baker Eddy on page 54 of "Retrospection and Introspection. " This is an inspiring challenge to demonstrate, as did the great Metaphysician, Christ Jesus, that good overcomes evil at every point.

As I laid down a recent issue of the Saturday Review of Literature, one devoted entirely to the subject of education, one salient fact stayed with me. It was that although the scholarly writers have agreed that education is a vital element in reshaping a battered world, no complete corrective has yet been discovered within the field itself.

The word "isolate" is rooted in the Latin word for "isle. " But telephone, radio, and airplane have taken the isolation out of place.