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Two men were speaking of Christian Science. One was active in business, the other a friend and counselor of wide experience.

" Why should I read the Bible through?" asks the individual. To the student of literature, history, archaeology the answers are varied, but to the student of Christian Science there is but one answer as far as his religion is concerned, and that is that in the Bible he finds the record of the religious development of the Hebrew nation, culminating in Christianity; also experiences paralleling his own and contributing in their spiritual significance to modern life and progress.

Christian Science teaches that God is Life, and that man, God's reflection, is the individualized expression of Life. God loves and is ever conscious of man, individually as well as collectively.

In answer to the question, "What are body and Soul?" Mary Baker Eddy writes in "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" ( p. 477 ), "Identity is the reflection of Spirit, the reflection in multifarious forms of the living Principle, Love.

When St. Paul spoke of "the peace of God, which passeth all understanding," he was painting no mere word picture; he was, instead, pointing to a divinely metaphysical fact.

No one need be deprived of the stimulus and joy of an eternal purpose in everyday life. The genuine and only laws of creation are spiritual laws, established and perpetuated by one perfect creative Principle, named God.

Mary Baker Eddy's statement (The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and Miscellany, pp. 352, 353 ), "My desire is that every Christian Scientist, and as many others as possible, subscribe for and read our daily newspaper," indicates that she believed such a course was for the benefit of the Scientist quite as much as for the support of the publication.

In solving mathematical problems we may refer to the answers listed in the back of our textbook, but, in order to obtain the correct answer indicated there, we must thoroughly study and obey the rules laid down. The beautiful promises of blessing given in the Bible are often prefaced by a command which must be obeyed in order to reap the desired benefits.

Christian Scientists are rejoicing that rising in their ranks are young and sturdy spiritual thinkers. Christian Science Sunday Schools and homes are largely responsible for the spiritual education received by these young men and women, many of whom have never known any other concept of existence than that set forth in Christian Science.

" O make me glad for every scalding tear, For hope deferred, ingratitude, disdain! Wait, and love more for every hate, and fear No ill,—since God is good, and loss is gain. " (Poems, p.