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Our beloved Leader, Mary Baker Eddy, in her tenderly beautiful poem, "To the Sunday School Children," includes the prayer ( Poems, p. 43 ): "Father, in Thy great heart hold them Ever thus as Thine! Shield and guide and guard them; and when At some siren shrine They would lay their pure hearts' off'ring, Light with wisdom's ray— Beacon beams—athwart the weakly, Rough or treacherous way.

Viewed from the standpoint of the material senses, business life seems to be threatened on all sides. from within and from without, by the forces of evil, defeat, and dissolution.

After the birth of Jesus, Joseph was warned by an angel, "Arise, and take the young child and his mother, and flee into Egypt, and be thou there until I bring thee word: for Herod will seek the young child to destroy him. " Joseph did not argue with this holy intuition, which was a message from God; he promptly obeyed, though humanly speaking it might have seemed strangely unnatural to go into a far country steeped in idolatry and mesmerism.

In our acknowledgment of God as infinite is found deliverance from that which is unlike God. What blessings there are in store for us as we enlarge our concept of Him and His completeness and perfection, and of man as His complete and perfect reflection, created, sustained, and protected by His spiritual law and subject alone to Him! "In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy paths.

In a recent number of the Christian Science Sentinel, there appeared in the "Signs of the Times" an excerpt from the British Weekly, London, England, by the Rev. James Reid, D.

When people came to Jesus to be healed, he did not try to ascertain if their difficulty was dangerous, acute, or chronic. He sometimes inquired where their faith rested, and if they really desired to be made free.

On page 591 of the Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," Mary Baker Eddy defines "man" as "the compound idea of infinite Spirit; the spiritual image and likeness of God; the full representation of Mind;" and on page 258 she writes, "God expresses in man the infinite idea forever developing itself, broadening and rising higher and higher from a boundless basis. " And she adds, "We know no more of man as the true divine image and likeness, than we know of God.

After Elijah the prophet had proved on Mount Carmel that God was the one true God, and had caused the destruction of the false prophets of Baal, he fled from the wrath of Jezebel and "went a day's journey into the wilderness," and there, discouraged over what seemed the hopelessness of his cause, he prayed that he might die. He had yet to prove the omnipotence, the goodness, the all-embracing love of God.

In the Gospel of Luke it is related that a certain lawyer once inquired of Jesus what he should do to inherit eternal life. Jesus asked him what he read in the law.

Mankind is groping for light on many things, but especially for an understanding of that which will bring freedom and peace to men individually and collectively, for the truth about God and the universe, including man. Many have given up hope of knowing in any degree the truth of real being.