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ONE or more times each year the businessman checks the stock and supplies at his place of business, rearranging the various items with a view to greater orderliness and more definite knowledge of what he has on hand. He places his choice merchandise where it will be seen at an advantage, reduces prices on certain goods for quick disposal, and discards valueless articles that fill needed space.

VERY significant is the way in which Jesus healed the blind man of Bethsaida. The Scripture records that the Master "took the blind man by the hand, and led him out of the town.

THE Christian Science church is a healing institution. It is the most potent organized instrument for spiritual healing in the world.

A SOURCE of never-ending inspiration and spiritual education is found by the Christian Scientist in the first chapter of Genesis. However familiar it may become, it explores deeply into reality, and the Christian Scientist returns to it repeatedly.

THE writer in the flush of youthful enthusiasm once said, "I would gladly give the next twenty years of my life if I could at once be at that spiritual point of growth which I hope the next twenty years will unfold in me. " But once spoken she knew that there was something fundamentally wrong with her statement beyond the obvious impossibility of skipping over twenty years and the falsity that virtue and grace would necessarily increase with the passage of years.

THE human problems involved in converting a wartime economy into a peacetime state are sometimes confusing and perplexing when they are considered from the standpoint of outward appearances. To many this process of reconversion is beset by unknown factors which may cause them to look at the future with fear and trembling.

IN the textbook of Christian Science, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," its author, Mary Baker Eddy, writes as follows ( p. 561 ): "John saw the human and divine coincidence, shown in the man Jesus, as divinity embracing humanity in Life and its demonstration,— reducing to human perception and understanding the Life which is God.

IN the light of Christian Science the title "Elijah" implies far more than the name of a man who demonstrated the power of God during the reign of Ahab, king of Israel. The significance of Elijah is both timeless and impersonal, for the name stands for that quality of spiritual discernment which beholds the omnipotence of God and is, consequently, fearless and uncompromising.

THAT light exists coincident with the true creation and is, therefore, wholly spiritual in its nature is evidenced by the fact that the divine mandate, "Let there be light," follows almost immediately upon the opening of the inspired record in the first chapter of Genesis. Humanity has for countless centuries ceaselessly strained toward this light and in periods of doubt, darkness, and uncertainty has turned to the divine source for comfort and guidance.

THE desire for success is so universal that books have been written, lectures and sermons delivered, with the hope of setting forth formulas for its attainment. Efforts based upon human theories may be directed toward worthy ends, and they may involve the use of such qualities as patience, perseverance, and courage; nevertheless, it is only as thought is divested of the sense of human personality and its accompanying phases of materialism and limitation that lasting success is achieved.