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A MOMENTOUS and comforting statement by Mary Baker Eddy is to be found on page 225 of the Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures. " It reads, "Love is the liberator.

ALMOST everyone has ambitions, some of which may seem worthy or unworthy, when judged according to accepted standards of morals, ethics, culture. All right ambitions, however, are founded on unselfishness, and often much worldly pleasure is sacrificed by an individual in order that he may study, work, invent, and achieve, and give of the results of his efforts to benefit mankind.

"NEVER was there a more solemn and imperious call than God makes to us all, right here, for fervent devotion and an absolute consecration to the greatest and holiest of all causes. " With these stirring words, on page 177 of "Miscellaneous Writings," our beloved Leader, Mary Baker Eddy, calls all students of Christian Science to sentinel their mental watchtowers of scientific purpose and action.

MEMBERSHIP in the Church of Christ, Scientist, is both a privilege and a responsibility. It is a privilege because it supplies opportunity for association with others animated by the same spiritual aims and interests.

THE book of Job, that great religious drama, written thousands of years ago, deals with the problem of human suffering and attempts to explain the presence of evil, supposed to be permitted in a world created and governed by a wholly good God. All through the ages what is termed the "problem of evil" has ever been a disturbing factor in human experience.

UNDER the marginal heading "Real and unreal identity," on page 70 of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," Mary Baker Eddy writes, "The divine Mind maintains all identities, from a blade of grass to a star, as distinct and eternal. " Real identity and spiritual law relate exclusively to the realm of God's spiritual creation, wherein everything is good.

THE question is sometimes asked, "Is Christianity fulfilling its purpose?" Many centuries have passed since the followers of Christ Jesus were designated as Christians in Antioch. It is noteworthy that the early Christians demonstrated the truth of their religion by healing sickness and disease of every nature, in obedience to the admonition of its great Founder.

WHAT is it that, sweeping down the centuries, seekers for Truth hear? It is the voice of Love. When David played on the harp, love caused "the evil spirit" to depart from King Saul.

HEALING in Christian Science is more than anything else a process of awakening. This awakening is brought about in different ways— through reading the Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," and other writings by Mary Baker Eddy; through treatment from a Christian Science practitioner; through listening to a lecture on Christian Science; through reading an article or articles in the Christian Science periodicals.

THE daily life of many would appear to be a constant struggle to ward off the attacks of evil. From the cradle to the grave mortals, un-instructed in the Science of being, appear to be involved in a continual fight to protect themselves from the ills of poor health, sin, poverty, disappointment, unhappiness, and the like, only finally to succumb to the supposedly unavoidable enemy, death.