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

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.

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.

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.

THE craving for news and the struggle to devise ways and means of satisfying that craving form interesting features in the development of race history. "As cold waters to a thirsty soul, so is good news from a far country," we read in Proverbs; while Isaiah joyfully exclaims, "How beautiful upon the mountains are the feet of him that bringeth good tidings, that publisheth peace; that bringeth good tidings of good, that publisheth salvation; that saith unto Zion, Thy God reigneth!" In striking contrast to Isaiah's picture of the bringer of good tidings in the eighth century before the Christian era, is the marvelous manner in which the news of today is procured and circulated.

" THE Lord of hosts hath sworn, saying, Surely as I have thought, so shall it come to pass; and as I have purposed, so shall it stand. " These inspired words of Isaiah should encourage all to refuse to be afraid of any manifestation of evil, of anything that cannot be true to the purpose, plan, or will of the infinite God, good.

" THE burden of proof that Christian Science is Science rests on Christian Scientists," writes our revered Leader, Mary Baker Eddy, on page 158 of "The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and Miscellany. " This statement was made in connection with the laying of the corner stone of First Church of Christ, Scientist, at Concord, New Hampshire.

THE character of Elijah was one of great moral sublimity and unquestioned faith in God. Some historians claim that he was one of the grandest and most romantic characters in Israel.

IT is related in the Acts of the Apostles that when Peter was cast into prison "prayer was made without ceasing of the church unto God for him. " An angel of the Lord delivered him out of prison; and when he came to the home of Mary, who was the mother of John Mark, where many were gathered praying, "they were astonished.