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The thirteenth chapter of First Corinthians clearly describes charity, a fundamental essential of every Christlike life, and enumerates some of the attributes by which this virtue is expressed in our daily lives. Since the word here translated "charity" means "love," it is love that never fails us.

In that remarkable incident related in the third chapter of Acts of the healing of the lame man by Peter and John, at the gate of the temple called Beautiful, Peter's words are deeply significant: "Silver and gold have I none; but such as I have give I thee. " One is impressed at once by the fact that Peter knew the value of the spiritual understanding which he had gained.

One day a student of Christian Science was presented with a photograph of a certain stretch of land taken from high in the air. As she looked at what she had thought was a very familiar scene, she was impressed by the increased beauty and grandeur as well as the tranquillity revealed from this new and higher vantage point.

In Christian Science real joy and gratitude are recognized as resulting from spiritual understanding and not from human emotion. Emotional joy may quickly turn to sorrow, and emotional gratitude to resentment; but real joy and gratitude unfold more and more, crowning spiritualized consciousness with the emblem of heaven, the signet of divine sonship.

In these days when so much interest centers on the solution of economic problems, it is no wonder that one finds oneself asking, Is it possible that effort to solve these problems has too long been turned in the wrong direction? Is it not apparent that mortals need spiritual enlightenment? Where may it be found? To whom shall we go? Mary Baker Eddy, to whom the Christ, Truth, was revealed in our day, writes in the textbook of Christian Science, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" ( pp. 263, 264 ), "The fading forms of matter, the mortal body and material earth, are the fleeting concepts of the human mind.

In the textbook of Christian Science, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," Mrs. Eddy says, on page 264, "The crude creations of mortal thought must finally give place to the glorious forms which we sometimes behold in the camera of divine Mind, when the mental picture is spiritual and eternal.

The seeker for the truth that will heal him of physical affliction finds a most helpful statement by Mrs. Eddy on page 476 of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures": "Jesus beheld in Science the perfect man, who appeared to him where sinning mortal man appears to mortals.

Perhaps the question which Christian Scientists are called upon to answer more frequently than any other is, "How is it that the prayers of Christian Scientists heal, when those of members of other denominations fail, although offered with the same degree of sincerity?" This question Mrs. Eddy answers to the satisfaction of all who will turn to her textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," with an unbiased mind.

How much do I own? How much am I worth? These are questions that continually knock at the door of human consciousness. And they frequently knock so hard as to disturb and upset one's mental equilibrium.

In "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" ( p. 388 ) Mrs.