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In the Acts of the Apostles it is related that Herod, the king, had killed James, one of Jesus' disciples, and taken Peter prisoner. It was planned that "after Easter" he should be brought before the people for trial.

In the midst of an age of materialism, of darkness and superstition, our blessed Master, Christ Jesus, through his teachings and example, gave to his own and succeeding generations the glorious light of a diviner sense of God. His deeds in fulfillment of his words, "I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly," awakened human consciousness to perceive and in some measure to understand the spiritual nature of man as immortal or undying.

It is recorded that, while making their way northward from Judea towards Galilee, Jesus and his disciples came to "Jacob's well," where the Master remained to rest, while his followers went to the neighboring village of Sychar to purchase food. Meanwhile a Samaritan woman approached the well and Jesus asked her to draw him a drink of water.

In making a thorough and systematic study of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy, my husband, Albert F. Conant, often wished that there was a concordance to aid him, instead of the incomplete index then in the back of the book.

" Ask yourself: Am I living the life that approaches the supreme good?" writes our Leader, Mary Baker Eddy, on page 496 of the Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures. " It is well to examine our thinking in the light of the ideal this question holds aloft.

The Apostle John, whose clear understanding of Jesus' teachings made him the beloved disciple, epitomized his spiritual enlightenment in the profound but simple statement, "God is love. " In all his teaching and healing, Christ Jesus constantly refuted the erroneous views of Deity as both good and evil held by those who preceded him, and proved God to be Love.

In these days of evil's desperate bid for supremacy, there is a natural tendency to concentrate on the destruction of its more immediate forms. Let these be but effaced, it is concluded, and all will be well.

Christ Jesus , in one of his discourses, said to those who believed on his teaching, "If ye continue in my word, then are ye my disciples indeed; and ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free. " Mary Baker Eddy, the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, states in the Preface to her textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" (p.

The truth concerning evil's impersonal nature was stated in unmistakable terms by the Apostle Paul in the seventh chapter of his epistle to the Romans, but it was not until the year 1866, when Mary Baker Eddy discovered the Science of Christian metaphysics, that a fuller significance of this all-important fact was revealed so that it could be universally utilized in the overcoming of mental and physical inharmonies. "For I know," writes Paul, that well-tried Christian, "that in me (that is, in my flesh,) dwelleth no good thing: for to will is present with me; but how to perform that which is good I find not.

A small child, reared in a Christian home, was familiar with many of the Bible stories relative to angels. She knew well and loved the story about God sending His angel to close the mouths of the lions, thus saving Daniel, and about God sending His angel to deliver the three young men from the fiery furnace.