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In Christian Science, living is active living. Idly marking time has no place in Christian Science.

The prophet Isaiah no doubt recognized the necessity and naturalness of spiritual progress. How his inspiring words encourage the spiritually-minded to attain a broader outlook! He says, "Enlarge the place of thy tent, and let them stretch forth the curtains of thine habitations: spare not, lengthen thy cords, and strengthen thy stakes.

Passing years, filled with progressive experiences in proving the truth of her revelation and teachings, enhance rather than dim one's memory of the cherished Leader of the Christian Science movement, Mary Baker Eddy. Words which fell from her lips long ago and were retained in thought have, just at the point of coincidence of one's own progress and the need for that spiritual interpretation, become illumined with their spiritual import.

One of the most impressive sayings in the Bible is that of Christ Jesus when, before raising Lazarus from the dead, he said: "Father, I thank thee that thou hast heard me. And I knew that thou hearest me always.

During the five or six centuries immediately preceding the birth of Christ Jesus, large numbers of Jews left Palestine and settled at various points throughout the then known world. This migratory movement had started with the enforced sojourn of the Hebrew people in Babylon, while, as the years went by, numerous Jewish colonies sprang up in Cyprus and in Asia Minor, in Greece and in Italy, and particularly by the Nile.

" God gives you His spiritual ideas, and in turn, they give you daily supplies" ( Miscellaneous Writings, p. 307 ).

Since the days when Jesus the Christ ministered and taught on earth, none has realized so definitely as the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science the healing quality of compassion. Mary Baker Eddy, always compassionate toward suffering, wrote in "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" ( p.

In what has been appropriately designated as "the pearl of parables," Christ Jesus bequeathed to humanity a lesson of great spiritual import. Briefly summarized, according to the account in Luke, a man had two sons.

We read in the fourth chapter of II Kings that "a certain woman of the wives of the sons of the prophets" cried unto Elisha for help when a creditor came to take her two sons as bondmen in payment of debts. It is recorded that he answered her, "What shall I do for thee? tell me, what hast thou in the house?" No doubt the thought of the woman was very much the same as that of many mortals today.

Even in the realm of human endeavor the quality of steadfastness is essential to the highest attainment. As we consider the lives of friends and associates whose achievements we admire in business, scholastic, or artistic fields, we find that, in general, their present attainments are the result of an unswerving devotion to an ideal.