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" EZEKIEL is a particularly interesting and important figure in the history of the Old Testament religion, for the reason that he represents the transition from the prophetic to the priestly period. Both a prophet and a priest, he sympathized with, and did justice to, both tendencies of thought.

IN 1908, as a comment on a letter, Mrs. Eddy wrote, "Forty years ago I said to a student, 'I can introduce Christian Science in England more readily than I can in America.

" WHEN the enemy shall come in like a flood, the Spirit of the Lord shall lift up a standard against him. " Centuries ago the prophet Isaiah uttered this assurance of divine deliverance.

IN the exquisite simplicity of pure metaphysics Mrs. Eddy sets forth part of "the doctrine of Christian Science" page 304 of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures.

BECAUSE of his relation to God, man's health, harmony, and peace are a spiritual inheritance, from which he cannot be separated. The fact that God created man in His own image and likeness precludes the possibility of his manifesting qualities or conditions unlike his divine Principle, God.

AFTER referring to John's vision of "a new heaven and a new earth," Mary Baker Eddy, on page 91 of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," points the way to right thinking about government in the question, "Have you ever pictured this heaven and earth, inhabited by beings under the control of supreme wisdom?" Peter, in his second epistle, after foretelling the dissolution of the material sense of heaven and earth, declares that, according to God's promise, it is our privilege to "look for new heavens and a new earth, wherein dwelleth righteousness. " In discerning this new, true idea of creation, we find that all God's children are happily employed under the government of divine Mind, working together for good.

" THE present stage of progress in Christian Science presents two opposite aspects,—a full-orbed promise, and a gaunt want" (Miscellaneous Writings, by Mary Baker Eddy, p. 355 ).

WHEN it is understood that sight is essentially a mental faculty, an all-important question is, Where shall our vision rest? In this sense one sees what one thinks. One's thoughts dwell either in Mind or on matter, and these are opposites, the one real and the other false.

IN answering the question, "What are body and Soul?" Mrs. Eddy in " Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" (p.

BEGINNERS in the study of "this inexhaustible subject—Christian Science" ( Retrospection and Introspection, p. 84 ) display differences in their manner of approach.