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" Art thou the King of the Jews?" A Pilate's momentous question to Jesus in the judgment hall at Jerusalem as the latter awaited the fateful decision of his enemies called forth from the discerning consciousness of the great Nazarene the counter-question, "Sayest thou this thing of thyself, or did others tell it thee of me?" It was as if the Master, perceiving the governor's hesitation and unwillingness to condemn him, sought to arouse in him a moral courage capable of resisting the clamor of the populace; and perhaps even more did he seek to awaken him to the spiritual truths which it was Jesus' mission as the Messiah to reveal, both by his original utterances and by his demonstration of divine law. At this supreme moment of his earthly career Jesus stood at the bar of human judgment, a judgment devoid of justice, influenced and inflamed by bitter hatred, fear, and ecclesiastical jealousy, and administered by one prepared to compromise Principle for popularity.

It is self-evident in the light of Christian Science that nothing can exist except as the product or creation of a self-existent creator. Deity alone is eternally self-existent, the one primal, infinite causation, without an opposite or an equal.

In today's critical stage of humanity's warfare against aggressive evil, Christian Science has given to the world a trained and experienced army, the army of Christian Scientists who have already had victorious experience in annulling the attacks of evil in their own lives and in the lives of others. Loud among error's claims today is the claim of lack in its various phases: lack of food, freedom, security, and the human necessities of living in the overrun countries; lack of true government and of purity on the part of the peoples in the aggressor nations; lack of foresight, of energy, of supplies, and above all, lack of weapons on the part of the democracies.

The Sermon on the Mount has been accepted by millions as an outstanding utterance of spiritual truths. Christ Jesus begins his incomparable sermon with the statement, "Blessed are the poor in spirit: for their's is the kingdom of heaven.

With what comfort do all the miracles of the Bible, both in the Old and in the New Testament, come to us at this time! A thoughtful survey of them reveals practically every type of mortal discord overcome, and in each is the vital fact demonstrated of the supremacy of good over evil. As we study and restudy them in the light of Christian Science, a new breath from heaven fans these familiar narratives into living messages of truth to meet the problems in the world today.

It was in Antioch, anciently a large and important city in Syria, that the followers of the teachings of Christ Jesus first were called Christians. The city was exceedingly paganistic and corrupt, and the term "Christian" probably was used with some measure of opprobrium.

March we forth in the strength of God With the banner of Christ unfurled, That the light of the glorious Gospel of truth May shine throughout the world. (Christian Science Hymnal, No.

One may look at a high mountain and think about the wonderful view to be obtained from its summit, but if that view is to be gained, the mountain must be climbed. This cannot be done by merely reading the guidebook, though the information in it will be of great value once the climb has started.

Simon Peter has left for us a literary legacy remarkable for its brevity. It is true that the Gospel of Mark may be in effect the memoirs of Peter, as tradition asserts, in that he doubtless provided the basic anecdotes there recorded by his young friend, but beyond that we have only two brief letters which are attributed to him.

To a great many people daily life is a rather drab, uninteresting round of tasks and duties. In other words they are living in a mental rut, expressive of a mistaken concept of life.