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The early history of the Hebrew race shows it to have been spiritually receptive to the truth about God as the Father of man. Abraham glimpsed the Christ, Truth, and a close study of his life, as recorded in the Scriptures, shows the unfolding in his thought of a progressive understanding of God.

On that memorable occasion when Christ Jesus asked his disciples, "Whom say ye that I am?" Peter answered, "Thou art the Christ, the Son of the living God. " His reply was commended in these words: "Blessed art thou, Simon Bar-jona: for flesh and blood hath not revealed it unto thee, but my Father which is in heaven.

There is balm in Gilead. The Magna Charta of Christian Science, as it is understood and used, pours the healing balm upon the strife-torn earth.

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.

ZECHARIAH .

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.