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Self-Examination is not only helpful but necessary in accomplishing the transformation of human thought from the material to the spiritual. It is often furthered by questioning one's self.

When the night has passed and the first soft shimmer of dawn appears, songbirds begin their sweet twitter and greeting. This chorus is like some conscious expression of joy that darkness is departed and that light has come.

The wise man represents wisdom as declaring, "The Lord possessed me in the beginning of his way, before his works of old. " This is an encouraging message to the individual who has awakened somewhat to the knowledge of God, Spirit.

A certain beggar who had been lame from birth was carried daily to the gate of the temple called Beautiful. Doubtless, he had accepted the evidence of the senses, and, supposing that gold and silver were the source and substance of supply, believed he had little or nothing, while others had plenty.

In "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" our beloved Leader, Mrs. Eddy, has written ( Science and Health p.

The Mayor of Tokyo, Japan, recently addressed a letter to the Christian Science Church in Boston, and evidently to other agencies which sent relief to the distressed residents of Tokyo following the earthquake disaster of September, 1923. His letter is as follows: Tokyo Municipal Office Tokyo, Sept.

The little book of "Jonah" touches the high-water mark of Old Testament theology. No other pre-Christian writer quite reaches the universalism which it implies.

[From the Bureau of History and Statistics of The Mother Church] Before she discovered Christian Science, Mary Baker Eddy was not prepared by experience or training to institute a cause or lead a movement corresponding to her great discovery. She had spoken and written or civic and ethical topics, such as the abolition of Negro slavery, but she had never devised a large plan or directed a large work.

Spiritual existence is eternal and must of necessity be continuous, not recurrent. Infinite in its scope, it is always unfolding the beauty and grandeur of God's creation.

In the Scriptures the word "lamp" is sometimes used to symbolize spiritual illumination. In one of the visions of Zechariah reference is made to seven lamps.