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ZECHARIAH .

THE different value placed upon ceremonial by Haggai, Zechariah, and Malachi, as compared with Amos, Isaiah, and Jeremiah, is largely explicable by the events that had occurred in the interval between them, and the lessons which those events enforced. The first two of the post-exilic prophets named strove earnestly to promote the re-construction of the Temple, rebuking those who were too busy with the adornment of their own dwellings to build the house of God, rallying from despondency those who contrasted with the glories of the first Temple the meanness of the second, and encouraging Zerubbabel, who was directing the work, by assuring him of Divine assistance.

SOMEONE has said that the individual is always alone. Even when surrounded by hundreds of persons, he is always alone with his thoughts.

The search for healing of their physical ills impels many to turn to Christian Science. Inevitably, all those who have thus become seekers for Truth interest themselves in the fundamentals of this new-old teaching of Christ Jesus.

IN the first chapter of the Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," Mrs. Eddy gives a comprehensive and wholly satisfying exposition of prayer.

OF deep significance to students of Christian Science are the chronicles of spiritual vision found in the Old Testament. Under seemingly adverse circumstances, surrounded by those deep in materiality, the spiritual seers foretold events of great import to all periods of history.

SEEKING is first of all a mental process. Mankind seeks through thoughts that are many and devious for what it considers the worth-while things.

" AND all thy children shall be taught of the Lord; and great shall be the peace of thy children. " From the morning of Israelitish history traditions were handed down from one generation to another.

THE world is at the threshold of a spiritual renaissance. In the midst of unprecedented upheavals, many mortals are turning more wholeheartedly to the Scriptures, and learning to declare with the Psalmist, "I will meditate in thy precepts, and have respect unto thy ways.

CHRIST JESUS designated the second great commandment as, "Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. " When endeavoring to obey this command, we should carefully examine the quality of the love that we are applying to ourselves, before we attempt to be obedient in regard to our neighbor.