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The Christian ideal presented in the words of Christ Jesus, "Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect," is generally regarded as too transcendental for present attainment. Yet, systems of religion and philosophy, ancient and modern, have considered perfection to be the ultimate goal of the race, and have devoted earnest effort toward the furtherance of that end.

Mrs. Eddy , in her book "Unity of Good," writes ( p.

Christ Jesus came teaching and demonstrating the power of God to heal the world's ills, including sickness and sin. This was the Master's mission, and for about three hundred years his followers practiced Christian healing until, through a decline in spiritual understanding, the healing power was lost sight of.

It is almost a quarter of a century since many nations engaged in a great war "to make the world safe for democracy. " Yet, today, the suggestion is insistently presented that democracy is in greater danger than ever—that it has failed and has proved unable to cope with current social and political problems.

How powerful has been the message which the Christian Science periodicals have carried to many a sick, discouraged mortal! Through them many have received their first intimation that there is an understanding of God and man so potent and true that it will establish for them the true sense of ability, abundance, health, and happiness. When the message which Christian Science has for a receptive heart is accepted, its revelation is "as when a lion roareth," and its effect on human thinking and living is revolutionary and regenerating.

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.