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Outpost duty is of great importance. Not only allegiance, but caution, loyalty, and watchfulness are needed to make instant discovery of any hostile activity, and thus to avoid danger.

In an address, in 1893, Mary Baker Eddy made the following statement (Miscellaneous Writings, p. 116 ): "The ultimate of scientific research and attainment in divine Science is not an argument: it is not merely saying, but doing, the Word—demonstrating Truth—even as the fruits of watchfulness, prayer, struggles, tears, and triumph.

In fall of 1621, a group of surviving Pilgrims held their first Thanksgiving feast. Despite many months of untold hardships, sufferings, and losses in the new world to which they had migrated seeking freedom from religious persecution, those brave and sturdy pioneers paused to thank God for His bounty and goodness.

A Philosopher of ancient times named Thales, a man of no mean reputation, once declared, "For a man to know himself is the hardest task he can master. " Considering man from the ordinary philosophical and theological viewpoints, that is undoubtedly true, for the hypothetical nature of these viewpoints hinders spiritual selfknowledge.

In the year 1866 there came to Mary Baker Eddy the revelation that Christ Jesus' gospel of the kingdom of heaven was the good news of the heavenly Father's ability to heal and save mankind not only in Jesus' time but for all time. That for which he gave his earthly all had for centuries become to an extent abrogated.

A glorious opportunity for individual spiritual growth lies in the experience of every member of a branch Church of Christ, Scientist, if he is daily availing himself of the privileges which membership in the Christian Science organization affords. No one thing, in the life of a member of a Christian Science church, is fraught with greater possibilities for individual spiritual attainment than is the experience of those who conscientiously, faithfully, and fearlessly meet and fulfill the obligations which devolve upon them as church members.

The longing for liberty inherent in the hearts of men is the natural revolt against oppression, since man's real state is one of freedom. This longing is the expression of mankind's insistent urge toward a knowledge of real, spiritual existence.

During the centuries immediately preceding the birth of Jesus, Hebrew, as a spoken language, gradually fell into disuse, being displaced by the more colloquial dialect known as Aramaic. Evidence of this gradual change is to be found even in the days of Nehemiah, who lived about 450 B.

Perhaps there is no word in the English language that conveys to human thinking two such diametrically opposed meanings as does the word "ambition. " It is usually taken to mean the desire and effort to rise to the top, to acquire riches or attain a position of prominence, oftentimes without regard to the unhappiness that this climbing may bring to others.

In the fourth chapter of II Kings is related an incident the meaning of which is revealed by spiritual understanding gained through the study of Christian Science. This is the story of the widow who, when faced with the creditor's threat to take into bondage her two sons, appealed for aid to the prophet Elisha.