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In the present age, mankind is witnessing the culmination of many great achievements. Mammoth bridges of lengthy span stretch across waters unbridged before; towering skyscrapers rise hundreds of feet above street level; gigantic dams, arresting the flow of mighty rivers, impound in man-made lakes, larger than ever before constructed, vast quantities of water which will eventually help to make fertile millions of acres of hitherto unproductive land.

FOR the first three quarters of the seventh century B. C.

IN the first chapter of Genesis we find a record of creation which begins with light and ends with man made in the image and likeness of God. The question may be asked, Why, if man is God's highest creation or idea, does he come last in the record and not first? In order to grasp the meaning of this, it is necessary to realize that the first chapter of Genesis is really a record of unfoldment or revelation, rather than of creation, for there can never have been a time when God was without His creation, or ideas, just as there never was a time when the sun existed without its rays.

THE book of Proverbs says of a man, "As he thinketh in his heart, so is he. " A man's thinking affects his whole experience.

MARY BAKER EDDY has given to the world an enlightening and thought-provoking definition of the word "resurrection. " In "Science and Health with Key to the scriptures" ( p.

RECENTLY, the writer had occasion to sit, for several days, in a courtroom where a case was being tried. The selection of the jury, the examination and cross-examination of witnesses, the arguments by attorneys, the instructions of the judge, and, finally, the verdict of the jury, recalled to mind the "mental court case" which Mrs.

THE quest of the ages has been for individual and general peace, for freedom from reactions of daily conduct that disturb and harass human experience. The solution of all problems that perplex thought and undermine health and well-being, lies in God-bestowed and conscious dominion over the belief in evil.

DIRECT and clear were God's instructions to Moses when, under divine guidance, the children of Israel were freed from slavery in Egypt and led in their long journey through the wilderness toward the land of Canaan. At one time, when there was lack of water in the desert for themselves and their cattle, the people unjustly reproached Moses and Aaron with having brought them out into the wilderness to die.

THE inspired Word of the Holy Scriptures is authority for the heartening assurance that evil is a deception and unreal, because not a product of the one creator, God. The world is immeasurably debtor to Mary Baker Eddy, in that she discovered this great truth which had for centuries lain in safekeeping in the Bible, and toiled untiringly to present her discovery to human thought in an entirely comprehensible and demonstrable form.

THROUGH his spiritual perception of the truth of being, the Christian Science nurse gains strength, courage, helpfulness, assurance, tender sympathy, and love. In proportion to his own regeneration from the belief of life in matter, he becomes increasingly equipped to uplift and cheer all those whom it is his duty to serve.