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How true to human experience is the picture which the Gospels paint for us of the two sisters, Martha and Mary! Their close relationship in no way marred their individuality, as the Biblical record shows, for each may be said to represent a distinct type. The familiar scene in which they both take part while entertaining Christ Jesus in their home at Bethany, has led some readers to dismiss Martha from thought as undeserving of further attention; though it may well be borne in mind that "Jesus loved Martha, and her sister, and Lazarus," as the evangelist John specifically records.

Have you ever worked into the small hours of the morning on an algebra or some other mathematical problem, and yet been unable to get your answer to agree with the one given in the back of the book? No doubt sometime during this struggle you were almost convinced the answer in the book was wrong. What was wrong with your solution? It was just that you were entertaining a false belief about the principle and rules of mathematics, was it not? How was the problem finally solved? By overcoming inertia and carefully consulting that part of the textbook which explained the particular mathematical principle underlying the solution of the problem.

A Small boy asked his father why he could not have been up already instead of having to grow up. The father replied that without the growing, there could be no up.

In "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" ( p. 583 ) Mary Baker Eddy, the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, and the revered Leader of its hosts of followers, has set forth the spiritual or divine concept of Church, as well as its human application and demonstration.

" Blessed are they that mourn. " said Jesus in the second beatitude, "for they shall be comforted.

Rightly directed reasoning is one of the foundation stones of a truly democratic community, from which issue liberty of thought and enlightenment. The word "reason" might be defined as the faculty of intelligence, especially the faculty by which we arrive at necessary truth.

Once upon a time," so the legend runs, certain dissenting influences sought permanently to isolate and to conceal from mankind the "Spirit of Divinity. " According to the fable, the ''Spirit of Divinity" was to be hidden in a place so unapproachably remote, so completely impossible of conjecture, and altogether so utterly beyond human sagacity that no one would ever be able to find it.

In her textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," Mary Baker Eddy, the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, has stated ( pp. 191, 192 ), "Mind, God, sends forth the aroma of Spirit, the atmosphere of intelligence.

The cliff was high and steep, and the path leading upward narrowed to almost nothing near the top. The individual ascending the narrow ledge found himself clawing for a hold on the sheer face of the rock.

Perhaps at no other time in the history of our nation has the necessity for the building of Christian character been more important than it is today. Is it not true that something far greater than mere physical strength and material methods is needed to combat the forces of evil so rampant in the world? Someone may ask.