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THROUGH the illusions of material sense it is not possible for mankind to achieve real happiness or peace. The limitations of matter fetter the mortal, and the uncertainties incidental to human experience are apt to render his life a ceaseless round of anxiety and fretting care.

IN the fourth chapter of his epistle to the Galatians, Paul makes this statement: "Thou art no more a servant, but a son; and if a son, then an heir of God through Christ. " Here Paul states a great fact.

ON page 448 of her textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," Mrs. Eddy writes, "It is Christian Science to do right, and nothing short of right-doing has any claim to the name.

WITH careful consideration of Mrs. Eddy's words on page 422 of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" one begins to realize the reconstructive nature of chemicalization.

THE usual secular government is subject to the ebb and flow of changing human concepts. The government of the Church of Christ, Scientist, and its members is based upon the inspired teachings of Christian Science, given in "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," the Church Manual, and other writings by Mary Baker Eddy.

CHRISTIAN SCIENCE gives not only a true understanding of spiritual law, but also an understanding of true obedience. Without the latter the former would not be of practical value to mortals.

IN the first chapter of Genesis is the significant declaration, "God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them. " It is obvious that this image or reflection must express exactly its original.

HUMAN judgment may and does appraise our Leader as a great, outstanding woman, but it is the Christian Scientist who discerns through spiritual sense and demonstration her real individuality, and the spirituality which constitutes her leadership. And what of this leadership? Whither does it tend? What human theories does it forsake, and what new and hitherto unexplored vistas does it open up to eyes before closed? Unequivocally our Leader states the starting point and the goal of this whole mental journey.

WHEN Shakespeare said, "There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so," he voiced a momentous fact. Therein he showed pointedly that thought is solely responsible for whatever is apparent in human affairs, and that a man's master is his own mentality, his own thinking.

Everything which the book [of Daniel] contains of comfort and promise is pure hope, for the whole book was composed at a time of extremest need.