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THE Psalmist sang of "a people near unto him," near unto God, and Christian Scientists have reason to believe that they are "a people near unto him," the true God. This sense of nearness has been gained by learning how to pray the prayer that is realization of the truth of being, which permits the demonstration of it in human affairs.

IT is an essential part of Christian Science practice to let Truth uncover error, and thus prove error's inability to mar or to disturb in any way the man created in God's image and likeness. Evil uncondemned or undetected becomes more aggressive, or more subtle; and the error may pass for good until Truth uncovers its hidden methods.

MOST people come to Christian Science for personal reasons. They find that it restores their health, strengthens their moral character, improves the harmony of their homes and business, and gives them a practical religion and membership in an active and interesting church.

IN human experience, It is found that whenever men gather together for a worthy purpose they formulate some rules of order for the common good. Even among animals and insects we see evidences of what we term co-operation.

HUMAN thought is in a constant state of flux, "for the fashion of this world passeth away. " The passing of time is in itself of no moment, but of vital import to humanity is the passing of illusions.

THE celebrated Ezra was a Jewish scribe and priest, who, about the year b. c.

WHATEVER his problem may be, a Christian Scientist approaches it with his textbooks, the Bible and "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," in hand. As a traveler who is about to start on a journey takes his maps and charts his course, deciding upon the route best suited to him in his present contemplated travel, so the Christian Scientist, on his spiritual journey, looks and adheres to the great directing truths which his textbooks hold for him, that he may with certainty let God govern his thinking.

EZRA (help), called Esdras in the Apocrypha, the famous scribe and priest. He was a learned and pious priest residing at Babylon in the time of Artaxerxes Longimanus.

IN "The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and Miscellany" (p. 247) Mary Baker Eddy, the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, writes, "The church is the mouthpiece of Christian Science.

MAN lives in Life, God, therefore man lives immortally. But the world in general regards mortal existence as life, and so defers any effort to live immortally until it has indulged the varied beliefs of mortal life, including death.