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" Ye have heard," says James in his epistle, "of the patience of Job;" and indeed Job's patience in affliction has become proverbial. From a material standpoint Job's prosperity seemed assured.

Invitations of many kinds to various feasts and activities are often extended to us for our pleasure. Also, mountains, hills, streams, countrysides, and other scenes and places silently beckon us to come and partake of their grandeur and beauty.

As the boat neared the mouth of the river, someone asked the captain, "Do you know where all the snags, shoals, and obstacles are?" The captain replied, "No, I do not know their location; but I know where the channel is. " Had the captain believed that he was familiar only with the obstacles, he could not have been relied upon to bring the vessel safely to port, for the tides may change the position of the shifting debris.

Christian Scientists cannot help observing that the successful student is one who works and studies, studies and works, unremittingly and consecratedly; who is faithful and consistent in his persistent search of the Bible and Mrs. Eddy's writings, in prayer, in church work, in the reading of the Christian Science periodicals, in the unflagging effort to see that his every thought, word, and deed expresses God's infinite love.

Centuries ago, a multitude gathered together on a hillside heard the answer to the human longing for security, for freedom from anxiety and deliverance from every vexing human difficulty. Jesus gave a simple, direct, and sure way in these words: "Seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you.

The ushers in Churches of Christ, Scientist, act as representatives of the members of the church, in welcoming the people and making them feel at home and comfortable while attending the services. Metaphysical work to make the services more fruitful, however, is not an obligation of the ushers only, but of the entire membership.

There is much talk of freedom in these days, especially among the younger generation. Such phrases as "the necessity for self-expression," "freedom of life and experience," are heard on every side, though to maturer thinkers these terms sometimes seem more nearly to connote self-indulgence and the loss of wholesome restraints, than true freedom.

The student of Christian Science is progressively aware of the beauty and vigor of the language employed by our beloved Leader, Mary Baker Eddy, in the textbook of Christian Science, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," and her other writings. One passage especially impressed itself upon a student who had systematically studied Mrs.

Christian Science reveals and demonstrates exact, eternal, unvarying Truth. It awakens in its students the perception of that which is real, the understanding of that which is true, the cognition of that which has actual existence.

Those who consider the material universe, so called, with all that it contains, its systems of arrangement, the sequence of specific forms, and the natural law and order which they apparently follow, are sometimes persuaded to believe they see in it the handiwork of God, as its purposive cause, and therefore something virtually to be worshiped. When they contemplate the beauties of the earth, the succession of the seasons, the fruits and the flowers, the exquisite snowflake or ice crystal, the loveliness of day and night, of sea and mountain, they are pressed with questionings concerning the source of the grandeur, the usefulness, the marvels, which lie beyond their own powers to produce or perhaps to control.