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One of the Ten Commandments provides that the Sabbath day shall be remembered and kept holy. In various ways men have been subjected to definite laws regarding the observance of this ordinance.

It was a bright summer's day and a student of Christian Science was looking out through the window upon the beauties of the countryside. His interest was aroused by the discovery that, when viewed through one part of the window, houses and trees appeared misshapen, while through another section of the pane the same objects seemed almost unrecognizable.

On page 505 of the Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy, we read: "Understanding is the line of demarcation between the real and unreal. Spiritual understanding unfolds Mind,—Life, Truth, and Love,— and demonstrates the divine sense, giving the spiritual proof of the universe in Christian Science.

By watching an apple fall from a tree to the ground, Sir Isaac Newton is said to have been led to the discovery of what is termed the law of gravitation. Briefly stated, gravitation is a force which, acting on all material bodies throughout the universe, causes them to be attracted or drawn to one another.

In the sixteenth chapter of the Gospel of Matthew is recorded a remarkable statement pertaining to church. Christ Jesus had attracted great throngs about him by wondrous signs of his divine authority—healing the sick, raising the dead, feeding the thousands, and proclaiming that the kingdom of God is at hand.

Christian Scientists joyously recognize that Christ Jesus had unqualified success in healing sin and disease, and even in overcoming death for others and for himself. They long to attain the same altitude of spiritual understanding and ability; and they keep this high standard ever before them.

What a word is freedom; how little understood, yet how earnestly sought after by mankind! All the world loves the thought of freedom, but few are agreed as to its nature or how to achieve it. Paul, having demanded his legal protection as a Roman citizen, said to the chief captain, "I was free born.

Mortals believe themselves to be members of a fallen race, a weak and stumbling race, hedged about by unnumbered limitations and bound by a thousand chains. But the real man is unfallen, perfect, absolutely free; his faculties cannot be impaired, nor can his harmony be invaded.

True self-consciousness is concerned with the understanding of man as spiritual. False self-consciousness is concerned with the belief of man as mortal.

Despite the unique importance and widespread popularity of the Authorized Version, there gradually arose a cry for its revision, and in considering the reasons for this cry, it may be recalled that the King James translation was itself "but the best of many revisions" (Hoare: Evolution of the English Bible, p. 270).