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The term "false claim" is commonly used among Christian Scientists. We often hear it said that someone has overcome the false claim from which he had been suffering.

The teachings of Christian Science are definite and final on the subject of Mind. God is Mind.

A writer living in the tropics of Africa has spoken of the peculiar beauty of the African nights. In Africa, she says, the night, lit by burning stars or tropic moon, is the time for traveling; so one becomes familiar with the constellations and their places in the heavens and with the beauty of the lunar or stellar scene.

There is scarcely a question which is more frequently asked of Christian Scientists than the one, How can man sin, if God has created him perfect? The answer is that the real man cannot sin. But to understand this, one must understand who and what man really is.

The desire to be of service for the good of mankind is deeply embedded in the human heart. To the extent that this desire is motivated by love for God and for mankind it is true prayer.

Dwelling in the midst of a material and idolatrous civilization, Abraham, because of his spirituality, heard the divine admonition to leave his country and to go unto "the land of Canaan. " In Hebrews it is said of Abraham that he "looked for a city which hath foundations, whose builder and maker is God.

The Christian Science church stands with outstretched arms calling to mankind as the prophet called of old, "Ho, every one that thirsteth, come ye to the waters. " It promises rest to the weary, reform to the sinner, health to the suffering, peace to the troubled, comfort to the sorrowing.

If we would know the man God made, we must also know God, who made him. The reason for that necessity is stated plainly in "Miscellaneous Writings," where Mary Baker Eddy says ( p.

" Good is my God, and my God is good. Love is my God, and my God is Love," constitutes the "diapason of heaven" constantly accentuated by the real Christian Scientist.

It may come as a surprise to many sincere students of the Bible to learn that a considerable proportion of the Old Testament is written in poetry; an interesting fact seldom, if ever, clearly suggested in our Authorized Version as commonly printed. If one turns, however, to the Hebrew text, or to such modern renderings as those prepared by Dr.