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Membership with The Mother Church, The First Church of Christ, Scientist, in Boston, Massachusetts, and with one of its many branch churches located throughout the world, is a natural and desirable unfoldment in the progress of the student of Christian Science. However, by whatever road one may approach an active consideration of this momentous step, seeming difficulties in the way may induce arguments which would tempt one to delay temporarily, if not to postpone indefinitely, the achievement of the desired goal.

On page 111 of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" Mrs. Eddy writes, "The Principle of divine metaphysics is God; the practice of divine metaphysics is the utilization of the power of Truth over error; its rules demonstrate its Science.

When the children of Israel, on their journey out of Egypt, found themselves surrounded by seemingly insurmountable obstacles, the Red Sea before them and the pursuing Egyptians behind them, they cried out against Moses for having induced them to start on this journey to freedom. But Moses was not dismayed by these threatening material conditions, nor by the Israelites' belief in and fear of them.

FOR a long time after Christ Jesus began to teach the Christian religion, the early Christians had to confront a persistent opposition based on fictitious reasons. Now, their experience has been and is being repeated in the experience of Christian Scientists.

THE beginner in the study and application of Christian Science may be looking mainly for the changes in physical conditions and environment which seem to him desirable. His study of Christian Science and his effort to live its teachings will surely correct whatever is wrong, and Mrs.

OWING to the business and financial depression, there are today throughout the world many who are turning their thought toward the subject of restoration. Mortal mind claims to give men the power to create and accumulate great wealth, to place them in positions of importance, and then to destroy what has been amassed and reduce them to a state of impoverishment.

SO interwoven are the experiences of mankind, so interdependent, that each individual thought and act has its bearing, either to bless or to harm. Not one lives to himself alone.

THERE is in mortals an inherent desire to be free. Everyone sooner or later finds himself in bondage to some form of discord or limitation which, perhaps, he considers difficult to overcome, and from which he earnestly seeks release.

" THE physical healing of Christian Science results now, as in Jesus' time, from the operation of divine Principle, before which sin and disease lose their reality in human consciousness and disappear as naturally and as necessarily as darkness gives place to light and sin to reformation. Now, as then, these mighty works are not supernatural, but supremely natural" ( Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy, Pref.

MRS. EDDY'S approving statements concerning academic studies, on page 195 of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," point out the opportunity open to every high school and college student.