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THE Bible contains many promises of good "to him that overcometh. " While these promises are definite, positive, and available for all, they are also conditional.

SO many, so rapid, and so radical are the changes taking place in the thinking and living of mankind today that one need not wonder at the state of confusion and bewilderment in which the nations of the world find themselves. The present has been called a period of adjustment, and we are constantly being told that our living must be adjusted to changing conditions.

WHILE the character of Ezekiel's ministry does not differ essentially from that of his predecessors, it presents some exceptional features of a very instructive kind. The mere fact of his being an exile accounts for much that is peculiar in his method of working and his conception of his office.

" 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 ).