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ST. JOHN the Divine records this message to the angel of the church in Smyrna: "Ye shall have tribulation ten days: be thou faithful unto death, and I will give thee a crown of life.

There is the Lake of Galilee as you see it from Gadara, with the hills of Naphtali above it, and Hermon filling all the north. There is the perspective of the Jordan Valley as you look up from over Jericho, between the bare ranges of Gilead and Ephraim, with the winding ribbon of the river's jungle, and the top of Hermon like a white cloud in the infinite distance.

I can still quite vividly remember my emotions the morning I first set eyes on Palestine.

Recently in a medical magazine there appeared an interesting article on faith-healing written by a well-known physician, who described in detail the healing of three so-called incurable organic diseases, brought about solely by the faith of the patients in the doctors treating them. He said that "faith is the most potent remedy.

That there is a definite upward trend of human thought is evident today. This is specially seen in the changed attitude toward individual activity.

The young man or young woman who is grounded in an understanding of Christian Science has within his or her grasp the accomplishment of great good. The most satisfying of human activities in which we can engage is work in the Christian Science movement.

No greater privilege awaits the young student of Christian Science than that of church membership, because this step requires spiritual preparation and makes constant and increasing demands for spiritual growth and the demonstration of divine ability. Being a member of a Christian Science church may be likened to being a pupil in a school in which the pupils are at different stages of progress, yet all are pursuing the same line of development.

Some of the necessary qualifications for serving mankind as a Christian Science nurse are given by our revered Leader, Mary Baker Eddy, in Science and Health (p. 395) , where she writes: "An ill-tempered, complaining, or deceitful person should not be a nurse.

The neophyte in Christian Science whose thought becomes arrested by Paul's exhortation to the Thessalonians: "Rejoice evermore. Pray without ceasing.

" The Christlike understanding of scientific being and divine healing includes a perfect Principle and idea,—perfect God and perfect man, —as the basis of thought and demonstration" ( Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, p. 259 ).