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Teaching in the Christian Science Sunday School affords an exceptional opportunity from at least two points of view. It enables one to serve through sharing with the children the great facts of being, and it affords a means for continuous growth in grace.

Members of The Mother Church have a precious possession in the Church Manual, written by the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, Mary Baker Eddy. As disciples of Christ Jesus, they are herein reminded of the discipline necessary for his followers.

What a depth of tenderness, compassion, and love the words of Christ Jesus, "Come unto me," must have conveyed to the eager seekers who came to him for healing of sickness, sorrow, or lack! What confidence in the healing power of the truth, which he knew and lived, lay behind his words! And what wonder and awe did these marvelous works of healing awake in the thought of those who witnessed them! They freed men from vexatious conditions resulting from disobedience to God's commands, as given to mankind through Moses and the prophets, and further revealed by Jesus. The Master warned some of those he healed to sin no more lest worse things should befall them.

There is little desire in the human consciousness for humility until, through spiritual unfoldment in Christian Science, its mighty potency is perceived. Long and patiently meekness often waits outside the mental door before it is given an opportunity to enter, for the individual may be entertaining arrogance, presumption, disdain, self-will, self-love, self-sufficiency, looking to these to aid him in an attempt to build up power and prestige.

" My peace I give unto you," said Christ Jesus, "not as the world giveth, give I unto you. " What was this peace which the Master gave to his followers, and wherein did it differ from what the world had to offer? As the character of the Christ was revealed in Jesus, it became evident, to those who had eyes to see, that the inspiration of his every word and deed lay in his unity with the Father.

The real man never traffics with his spiritual birthright of life, freedom, harmony, and boundless good. His vision of eternal selfhood, intact, perfect, and undefiled, is never for a single moment obscured.

Much that is helpful remains hidden in words and phrases that have become so familiar as to induce a perfunctory reading. One is apt to slip lightly, for instance, over such a phrase as is frequently found throughout the Old Testament, "And it came to pass," its direct meaning being the recording of an event.

Nathaniel Hawthorne in "The Great Stone Face" tells the legend of the profile on the mountainside, which was like a great and good man who would some day come to benefit the struggling villagers near by. A lowly lad spent many hours of his youth gazing at the profile and thinking of the goodness of the man who was to come.

No better counsel as to a method of effective prayer can be found than in the eleventh chapter of Mark's Gospel, wherein is recorded the earnest appeal of the Master to his disciples for greater steadfastness, faith in God, and forgiveness, if there be "ought against any. " As a fitting climax to his admonition for unwavering faith, he promised, "What things soever ye desire, when ye pray, believe that ye receive them, and ye shall have them.

Much is heard of the questionings of youth as to life, its meaning and purpose. Youth is said to be unsettled, doubtful, viewing the future as a sea of uncertainty with no port of destination and no compass of reason or revelation with which to steer the ship of life.