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" Beloved let us love one another; for love is of God; and every one that loveth is born of God, and knoweth God. " One who deals with those seeking relief through Christian Science from claims of sickness and other discordant conditions, sees that the great need is to understand more about divine Love and to use this understanding in expressing forgiveness, patience, gentleness, meekness, kindness, and unselfishness in everyday living.

Mortals are prone to circumscribe the joy and usefulness of life within a limited number of years. After the period designated as "middle life," there is supposed to be a recession of powers until such qualities as alertness, assurance, perception, poise, business acumen, and physical vigor are irreparably impaired, if not wholly destroyed by reason of the flight of years.

Noumenon and phenomenon, Mind and idea, necessarily correspond. Phenomenon must partake of the nature of noumenon; that is, idea of the nature of Mind.

The inspiration of the Hebrew Scriptures is their revelation of the allness of God, in contradistinction to the beliefs of mortals in another being of unlike nature and influence. In the allegory of Eden, which has its counterpart in each human consciousness, the serpent represented the suggestion that there was a condition of things besides good, and that it was proper for Adam and Eve to be acquainted with it.

On page 10 of her Message to The Mother Church for 1898, entitled "Christian Science versus Pantheism," our revered Leader speaks of "the grace of God" as "the effect of God understood. " Truly this is a profound definition.

We are all practicing Christian Science to the extent that we put its teachings into practice in our daily affairs, in our homes, our businesses, our churches, and in all our contacts with our fellow men. While the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, Mary Baker Eddy, has wisely provided certain qualifications and requirements for those who, as registered practitioners of Christian Science, make their services publicly available, yet she has also clearly indicated that she expects everyone to be able to understand and to utilize this Science which she applied so successfully in solving all kinds of human problems.

JOHN WYCLIFFE , who lived in the fourteenth century, was a native of Richmond in Yorkshire; and he proceeded from there to Oxford, where he received his education, becoming in due course master of Balliol College. It was not long, however, before he resigned from this position, and turned his attention more particularly to writing and preaching.

ALTHOUGH many deny it, an underlying sense of brotherhood is usually to be found, in some measure at least, between all individuals and in all communities. Persons who have professed dislike for one another, under circumstances in which friction and disagreement have appeared dominant, will in a time of stress and urgent need be found ready to help one another; and not alone to give a helping hand, but to share their substance.

MANY centuries ago, at the hands of an angry people, Stephen, "a man full of faith," met a violent death. His ardent and outspoken stand for Christianity differed from their stand for an established ritual of worship, and his reproof aroused their antagonism.

THE success of Christian Science practice depends on knowing that God rules omnipotently and supremely, since He is All. No Christian entertains any doubt about God's supremacy in heaven, and many turn to Him with more or less assurance for guidance regarding earthly conditions and occurrences.