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In the illustrated poem, "Christ and Christmas" by Mary Baker Eddy, is a picture of two angels without wings, moving gracefully and swiftly through space. May they not illustrate something of the activity of the spiritual idea, something of the heavenly motive power of divine grace, quickening and arousing thought with the impetus of inspiration and divine intelligence? Such thought activity is described figuratively by Ezekiel in his vision of the cherubim, where we read ( Ezek.

Freedom is native to man because it is God-derived. This is why men, throughout the ages, have worked and lived, fought and died, for their ideals of freedom.

A Missionary came upon an Armenian who recited to him the entire Sermon on the Mount. To the Armenian this was a natural achievement; for he had memorized it one verse at a time, then lived it among his neighbors until he had proved it as his own.

Much has been said about freedom, and many efforts have been and are still being made to obtain for mankind relief from various forms of bondage. Such efforts are commendable so far as they go; but as belief in material existence is the basis of bondage, complete and permanent freedom can come only with the full recognition of Spirit and spiritual man.

A SUCCESSFUL-APPEARING man arose at a testimony meeting in a Christian Science church and expressed his gratitude for Christian Science. He said that he had recently visited the small town where he had attended the Christian Science Sunday School, and it had brought vividly to his thought how very much that training had meant to him and how grateful he was for the privilege of passing along the same sort of instruction now as a teacher in the Sunday school.

" IF I can just get through the first group of songs, the rest will go beautifully," said a singer before a recital. To her surprise, the evening of the concert the first section went perfectly, but in the middle of the very next song she forgot the words and had to start the song over from the beginning.

" LOVE, " Mary Baker Eddy penetratingly remarks in "Miscellaneous Writings" ( p. 250 ), "cannot be a mere abstraction, or goodness without activity and power," and she continues by indicating many quiet and selfless ways in which divine Love may be humanly expressed.

SUNDAY SCHOOL teaching is one of the most important and interesting kinds of church work, requiring constant study and prayer. If lessons seem to be dull and children unruly, let the teacher search his own thinking.

TODAY a mighty challenge comes to test the depth and integrity of our love. The call to forgive, to refuse to attach evil to man, is constantly knocking at the door of consciousness.

" HEAR , O Israel: The Lord our God is one Lord: and thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy might. " These vital words of the Hebrew Shema, the declaration of Moses, are echoing in our ears today even as they penetrated the consciousness of the children of Israel thirty-five hundred years ago on Mount Nebo.