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A design is a plan, a purpose; and this age has been called anew, through a "still small voice," to consider God's complete and perfect plan for His people. Today the Bible is holding the earnest attention of men and women beyond that of any other period.

In Jesus' parable of the prodigal son recorded in the fifteenth chapter of Luke's Gospel, we read of a father who had two sons. The younger son requested that his father give him "the portion of goods" which were his by inheritance.

One  of the many interesting marginal headings in our textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy, is "Veritable success" ( p. 372 ).

O longing hearts that wait on God Through all the world so wide; He knows the angels that you need, And sends them to your side, To comfort, guard and guide. How gently dawns the comfort of this message, found in the Christian Science Hymnal, upon all humble seekers who are earnestly endeavoring to work out of the darkness of materiality into the glorious light of Spirit.

The word "shadow" has a diversity of meaning, but perhaps most often it is associated with darkness or obscuration. In the Biblical account of the works of the disciples after Jesus left them, this word is used with quite a different meaning.

The strength, permanency, and progress of the Christian Science church depend on the alertness and success of its members in governing themselves and their church on the basis of spiritual understanding and demonstration. After years of prayer, toil, and sacrifice in the endeavor to establish her church, our beloved Leader, Mary Baker Eddy, discerned this great fact, and she sounded the keynote in the Manual of The Mother Church when she wrote ( p.

A wealthy young man once went to Jesus with a very important question. He wished to know what he should do to secure eternal life.

Probably no one realized better than did the beloved Founder of the Christian Science movement, Mary Baker Eddy, the trials and vicissitudes facing the men, and, in modern times, the women of the armed forces of the nations, and the invaluable and effective aid which their relatives and friends who are enjoying the protection and privilege of home life can afford them. "In your peaceful homes," she writes (Christian Science versus Pantheism, pp.

In several instances our Leader, Mary Baker Eddy, has used the illustration of a master sculptor to depict graphically the fundamental relationship existing between perfect workmanship and models or ideals. In her textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," she writes ( p.

More has been heard recently about the salutary effects of prayer than at any other period of modern history. One has but to pick up a newspaper or magazine or to listen to a radio program and he will learn of some experience in which the narrator has been saved, through prayer alone, from a perilous situation.