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The customs of many people today are the outcome of events recorded centuries ago in the Bible. The practice of commemorating these events keeps alive their memory.

True individuality is without egotism. It is the counterfeit, the false mortal selfhood posing as something that it is not, which cloaks itself in egotism.

In the first chapter of Genesis, which Christian Scientists accept as the account of the real and spiritual creation, we are told that "God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them. " But in the second chapter—the account of the false or counterfeit creation— we find woman separated from man.

Nearly two thousand years ago, on a quiet hillside in old Judea, a little group of thoughtful men rested and listened. Their world was seething with trouble, and these men sought a solution to its many problems.

In mundane affairs the element of time seems a very important factor. It governs very largely the lives and actions of mortals.

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.