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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.

The book of Daniel, when interpreted in the same way as other "apocalyptic" writings, is found "profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness. ".

Of the literary qualities of Daniel it is not necessary to speak at length. The Revelation of Daniel was the most prominent example of a long course of apocalyptic literature culminating, for the biblical reader, in the Revelation of St.

Christian Science was discovered by Mary Baker Eddy in Massachusetts in 1866. She began to publish her writings on this subject there in 1875.

The voice of God came to mankind through the prophet Isaiah, saying, "I have not spoken in secret, in a dark place of the earth: I said not unto the seed of Jacob, Seek ye me in vain: I the Lord speak righteousness, I declare things that are right. " What a comfort it is to know that to seek God aright is to find Him; that He lovingly and unfailingly reveals Himself to His own creation; that He does not dwell apart in hidden places! Christian Science is teaching men that God is omnipresent, and is perceived by the illumined consciousness.

On one occasion a student of Christian Science and some friends had the privilege of visiting a certain national park. Easily and steadily they ascended the mountain road in their automobile, pausing from time to time to view waterfalls and mountain streams.