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ONE of the many simple yet profound statements made by our Master, as recorded in the tenth chapter of the Gospel of Mark, reads, "Verily I say unto you, Whosoever shall not receive the kingdom of God as a little child, he shall not enter therein. " Willingness to learn is one of the characteristics of a little child, one which Jesus may have had in thought when he made this declaration.

WHEN Malachi reproved the Israelites for their infidelity, their idolatry, and their neglect in keeping the ordinances and the commandments of God, he said: "Will a man rob God? Yet ye have robbed me. " The exhortation, "Bring ye all the tithes into the storehouse, that there may be meat in mine house," indicates that the people were withholding in tithes, in offerings, and in obedience, and therefore were not receiving the blessings which God was ready to bestow upon them.

EVERY reasoning human being will admit that the need of the world today is and always has been true enlightenment. The desire to learn springs from this need and will continue until education is purged of materiality.

THE heart hungering for righteousness, or yearning for surcease from earthly ills, seeks closer communion with the loving Father through prayer. Of primary importance to every individual is his assured power to approach God with faith unshaken in his ability to pray aright.

ON page 307 of "Miscellaneous Writings" our Leader writes, "God gives you His spiritual ideas, and in turn, they give you daily supplies. " The deep significance of this statement may not at first be clear to the beginner in the study of Christian Science, because he has not as yet learned the value of spiritual ideas, or discerned how they can affect his human experience.

THE building and dedication of a church edifice by a branch of The Mother Church marks the end of one stage of activity in the Christian Science movement in the community and the beginning of another. From a small band of earnest worshipers, perhaps gathering first in the home of one of their number, the organization has grown through accessions of those enlightened and healed, and thence has progressed to rented halls or remodeled residence, and now to a goodly structure of its own, designed to symbolize in location, beauty, and fitness the Christian Science ideal of loving service to God and man.

" THEY considered not the miracle of the loaves: for their heart was hardened. " Such is Mark's arresting comment concerning the wondering disciples when Jesus, whom they had seen walking upon the sea, "went up unto them into the ship.

LITTLE is known of the prophet [Joel]; he was the son of pethuel, probably a Judahite, and prophesied in Jerusalem.

OF Joel and his time we know nothing but what is contained in his book. The heading of the book tells us that Joel was the son of pethuel.

FOR Christian Science to fulfill its divine purpose, it must become known to mankind; for its purpose is fulfilled to the extent that human thought is brought or kept in accord with divine Principle. This Science, therefore, had to be discovered effectively by a person who could both comprehend it clearly for herself and communicate it correctly to other people.