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The very first word of the Lord's Prayer should bring the humble recognition of God's impartial love for all His children. The use of "our" rather than "my," should teach us that true prayer is not asking for oneself alone, but is a brotherly desire for the unfoldment of God's blessings to the whole human family, irrespective of one's place in the social scale of human standards.

A Right idea is always needed for correction of a wrong concept. When the spiritual idea of Being dawned upon the receptive thought of Mary Baker Eddy, the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, enabling her to discern Deity as infinite Mind, divine Principle, the agelong belief that God was the author of a material creation began to lose its hold upon human thought.

The living beauty of heaven as revealed through the teachings of Christian Science has filled countless hearts with deep and lasting joy. The age-old concept of heaven as a distant, nebulous spot where God is enthroned, arbitrarily summoning His children to Him one by one through a process that stings with grief and stabs with dread, fades before the truth presented by Christian Science.

When , nineteen hundred years ago, the Roman governor of Judea half cynically asked of one brought before him, Christ Jesus, "What is truth?" he little realized that he was asking the most momentous question of all time. At that moment Pontius Pilate may be regarded as having become the mouthpiece of all the bewildered millions of mortals who had asked in their hearts the same question.

The establishment of our identity is at times a matter of considerable importance. In proof of our right to an inheritance, in vindication of innocence, or in crossing the border of another country, it is necessary that we prove beyond doubt who we are.

How unnecessary is belief in a so-called past, and yet how often are men tempted to dwell there instead of in the eternal now of Spirit! Paul, so well comprehending the evils that beset men in their Christian journey, pointed the resolute way of freedom when he wrote to the Philippians, "Forgetting those things which are behind, .

Christian Scientists are obedient to the laws of the lands in which they live. Mrs.

Evening had arrived, and the actual meeting of the brethren could not take place till the next day. Jacob had now reached the banks of the Jabbok,.

THE character of Esau has many attractive features; but he .

THROUGH the discovery of Christian Science by Mary Baker Eddy, as presented in her book "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" and in her other writings, humanity may learn how to lift itself above the mendacious claims of the carnal mind. This Science is saying to men, "Lift up your heads, O ye gates; and be ye lift up, ye everlasting doors; and the King of glory shall come in.