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The wise man said, "Keep thy heart with all diligence; for out of it are the issues of life. " This heart that we are to "keep" is our citadel.

Mary baker eddy , the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, writes in "Miscellaneous Writings" ( p. 174 ): "Let us have a clearing up of abstractions.

Christ jesus was ever conscious of the fact that God's man is the expression of good alone, he proved this beyond doubt when he raised Lazarus from the tomb, for he destroyed not only the belief in death but also the belief in the illness that had resulted in death. In other words, Jesus scientifically proved that in spiritual history neither illness nor death has place.

The strongest argument for good is a good example. Paul indicated this in his letter to Timothy, pointing out that if the early Christians would convert others to Christianity they must be living examples of Christian teaching.

Human thought is being educated progressively out of its limitations toward values infinite and eternal. All that is true must in its fundamental nature be known spiritually, since the truth of being is wholly spiritual.

" To those leaning on the sustaining infinite, to-day is big with blessings. " What a world of promise is conveyed in these opening words of the Preface to "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy! The promise is universal and impartial.

Mary Baker Eddy , the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, in the course of an address given to her March Primary Class some fifty-two years ago, made the following arresting statement ( Miscellaneous Writings, pp. 279, 280 ): "We, to-day, in this class-room, are enough to convert the world if we are of one Mind; for then the whole world will feel the influence of this Mind; as when the earth was without form, and Mind spake and form appeared.

The Scriptures reveal the law of justice whereby the guilty are punished while innocence is divinely protected. Moses and the prophets, through holy meditation and spiritual insight, recognized the law of God and exhorted the people to purify their lives.

During the World War of 1914-1918 a British statesman, addressing an audience when inaugurating national food control, stated in substance that the only food controller who could have satisfied everyone was the man who had fed five thousand with five loaves and two small fishes, and even then had had a substantial surplus. At a time when the question of adequate supplies of all commodities and their efficient distribution is exercising the care and ingenuity of those responsible throughout the world, it is interesting and instructive to turn aside from human ways and means and to contemplate the methods of Jesus, methods which are so diametrically opposite to those most widely adopted today.

In the Old Testament is found the inspiring story of the child Samuel, who was called of God to receive an important message to His people. To this child, whose thought was innocent, pure, and receptive, came the voice of God, and it is recorded that "Samuel grew, and the Lord was with him, and did let none of his words fall to the ground.