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Throughout the centuries of its human expression, friendship has not changed in its essential meaning. True friendship, that impelling bond such as existed in Bible times between Jonathan and David, and between Ruth and Naomi, is based on the love to which Jesus referred when he said to his disciples, "Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.

William Tyndale who was a native of Gloucestershire, entered Oxford University at an early age. He became an apt student of languages, and especially of the Scriptures.

On one occasion, when Jesus was teaching in a synagogue on the Sabbath, he saw a woman who appeared to be in a pitiable condition. She had, as the Bible states in the Gospel of Luke, "a spirit of infirmity eighteen years, and was bowed together, and could in no wise lift up herself.

Christian Science is logical. Christian Science is based firmly on the premise that God is All-in-all, that He made everything that exists, and that, therefore, there can be no reality in anything which is not good, perfect, and eternal.

The most encouraging sign of the salvation of a storm-tossed and fearful world is the widespread and irresistible progress of the Christian Science movement. The compelling growth of interest in this teaching shows an ever-increasing perception of and ability to demonstrate man's spiritual, God bestowed freedom from evil of every sort.

The stress of the past several years has brought problems to not a few pertaining to employment and supply. Many who have spent years in some line of business or activity have found themselves faced with the necessity of a change of occupation through no fault of their own.

On page 12 of "The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and Miscellany" Mary Baker Eddy makes this pertinent statement, "We own no past, no future, we possess only now. "  And farther on in the same paragraph she adds, "Faith in divine Love supplies the ever-present help and now, and gives the power to 'act in the living present.

The contribution to human welfare made by Mary Baker Eddy through her discovery of Christian Science, is of such far-reaching importance that few, if any, today realize the full extent of its higher implications. None knew as well as did Mrs.

In one of Jesus' parables it is related that according to the custom of those days two men went up to offer prayer in the temple. One was a Pharisee.

Because of our Master's sufferings, the cross later became the emblem of Christianity. The theologians of his day, whose superficiality was harassed by the truth Jesus taught, believed that in subjecting him to this dire experience they had proved him to be a malefactor and had removed him from their horizon.