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In the textbook of Christian Science, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," Mary Baker Eddy, referring to healing the sick, emphatically enjoins ( p. 417 ): "Maintain the facts of Christian Science,—that Spirit is God, and therefore cannot be sick; that what is termed matter cannot be sick; that all causation is Mind, acting through spiritual law.

WHILE the manuscripts of the New Testament, as they have come down to us from the early centuries of our era, are uniformly written in Greek, the facts that Christ Jesus himself knew Aramaic and made a practice of using it in his teachings, are sufficient to arouse the student's interest in the latter language. Indeed there seems to be a growing sentiment in favor of the view that the Gospel writings, whether in whole or in part, were originally published in Aramaic, while some would go still further, assuming, though with much less probability, that the whole of the New Testament was composed in this dialect, being later translated into Greek.

RELIGION has been defined as "conformity in faith and life to the precepts inculcated in the Bible, respecting the conduct of life and duty toward God and man; the Christian faith and practice;" and ethics as "a system of principles and rules concerning duty. " It is not unusual for individuals to disregard religion in its deeper sense, and to feel they are doing their duty through indefinite adherence to a superficial code designed to govern human behavior generally.

CHRISTIAN SCIENCE teaches us the true design for right living. It tells us of our true nature and what we must do to manifest our true selves.

OUR revered Leader, Mary Baker Eddy, has given us this inspired statement in "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" ( p. 258 ): "God expresses in man the infinite idea forever developing itself, broadening and rising higher and higher from a boundless basis.

GOD'S law governs the real man and the spiritual universe; and God is Love. It is the work of Christian Scientists to express the law of Love, thus helping to awaken mankind from mortal misconceptions of life to the truth of being.

CHRIST JESUS demonstrated eternal life. In the joy of unlimited spiritual love he stood at one with God, and overcame every claim of evil, disease, and death that presented itself to him.

IN reading the Gospels we see as in a mirror the character of the Christ reflected in the life and actions of Jesus. Mrs.

WHEN Christ Jesus gave the command, "Love one another," he added significantly, "as I have loved you. " Herein is defined the nature of the true love essential for happiness.

MUCH admiration and commendation is due one who manifests in his daily life that alertness which is commonly called "presence of mind. " This expression is often used, however, without realization of its spiritual significance.