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The famous Greek translation of the Old Testament known as the Septuagint is now generally supposed to have been prepared about the third century B. C.

Individuals who have had little or no difficulty in demonstrating the Principle of Christian Science in overcoming the claims of physical disability, need have no more difficulty in meeting a claim of financial lack. An apparent lack of supply should yield instantly, or within a short time, to their knowing and affirming of the truth.

Those who are practicing Christian Science today are endeavoring to meet the heart's great need by awakening mankind to a truer sense of Life and Love, arousing a desire to know and to do good, to receive and express good. With her unfailing wisdom, Mary Baker Eddy realized mankind's greatest need, and in an address to The Mother Church, in 1895, she stated (Miscellaneous Writings, p.

The prophet Isaiah wrote of the coming Messiah as the "Prince of Peace," and the "Prince of Peace" the Messiah truly is when rightly understood and obeyed; but the peace which Christ Jesus came to establish on earth was evidently of a higher order than the sense commonly entertained of it. Speaking to his disciples towards the close of his personal ministry he said, "My peace I give unto you: not as the world giveth, give I unto you.

Those who are engaged in the joyous activity of church work for the promotion of the Cause of Christian Science naturally experience growth in discernment and healing ability. It is a glorious privilege to help in the various branches of work in our movement, and the workers should daily experience blessings as the result of their work.

Three visits of Jesus to the sisters Martha and Mary are recorded in the Bible, in Luke and John. According to the Oxford Cyclopedic Concordance, two of these visits were two or three months apart.

Mary Baker Eddy gives a very simple rule which may be applied to every phase of error with successful results. It is found on page 525 of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," the textbook of Christian Science, and reads thus: "Sin, sickness, and death must be deemed as devoid of reality as they are of good, God.

" I Have been told that Jesus accomplished his healing works because of his ability to make use of some specific law relative to healing. " This statement was made by a man who, as a last resort, had turned to Christian Science for treatment, hoping to be healed of an inveterate disease.

In the Psalms it is recorded that the children of Israel were required to sing the songs of Zion while they were in captivity in a strange land. The lesson of rejoicing in the presence of tribulation is one that the human race is still far from having learned.

Before we try to Christianize the so-called heathen, we had better Christianize ourselves," was the illuminating answer once given by an experienced Christian Scientist to the writer, when he broached the subject of introducing Christian Science to a religiously darkened section of the world. The need for letting the Christ improve our living was imperative then, and the same need is with us today.