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NEXT to Christ Jesus, Mary Baker Eddy, the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, is being gradually and rightly conceded to be the world's greatest Christian educator. Her greatness in this respect is commensurate with her fidelity to her discovery, the Science of divine Mind, by which she gave to universal humanity a system of spiritual education which is Christianly scientific.

WHEN we have seen the healing power of Christian Science made manifest in our lives, the desire to join the Christian Science church naturally springs up in our hearts. This desire should be cherished and encouraged until the right moment comes for its fulfillment, for in speaking of right desire our Leader, Mary Baker Eddy, writes (Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, p.

THE Apostle James admonished: "Resist the devil, and he will flee from you. Draw nigh to God, and he will draw nigh to you.

CHRISTIAN SCIENCE reveals that the jurisdiction of divine law extends throughout the one and only spiritual realm, and that, through the understanding of Christian Science, God's divine government can be proved supreme in human experience. Consecrated and loyal students of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy recognize the importance of the author's statement on page 458 : "The Christianly scientific man reflects the divine law, thus becoming a law unto himself.

EARLY one morning, before daybreak, a party of motorists were wending their way over a circuitous mountain road when, as they rounded the crest of a high point, they beheld before them what appeared to be a beautiful lake. It apparently extended for many miles, and the rugged shore line and silvery white water were in sharp contrast with the towering dark purplish mountains that completely encircled it—a delightful panorama in the soft gray of the dawning day.

MRS. EDDY tells us on page 370 of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" that "to be immortal, we must forsake the mortal sense of things, turn from the lie of false belief to Truth, and gather the facts of being from the divine Mind.

THE Master said, "I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly," and he verified this statement by saving the sinner, healing the sick, and raising the dead, in proof of his Messiahship. In covering the great subject of salvation, our beloved Leader, Mary Baker Eddy, speaks of it as the overcoming of sin, disease, and death.

THE parable of the ten virgins, as told in the twenty-fifth chapter of the Gospel of Matthew, contains a wonderful lesson, which can be used very advantageously in meeting the problems and opportunities of today. In this parable the five wise virgins kept their lamps trimmed and their vessels well supplied with oil in anticipation of the bridegroom's coming.

"AND now, O Father, glorify thou me with thine own self with the glory which I had with thee before the world was. " These words were not uttered by a triumphant potentate returning from conquest, but by a man about to experience crucifixion for his goodness.

The following statement made by the Hon. Charles Carrol Bonney, president of the World's Congress Auxiliary, in regard to the Christian Science movement and cited by Mary Baker Eddy in "Miscellaneous Writings" ( p.