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IN the business world today one hears more of service than formerly. Indeed, service is being more generally recognized as the keynote of prosperity.

THROUGH the careful and diligent study of the Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy, we inevitably reach the conclusion that the amelioration of physical discord is not the primary mission of Christian Science. Its mission, more than merely the improvement of particular mortal beliefs, is the elimination of the fundamentally erroneous belief that man is material.

AN incident of no small moment occurred on a roadway leading to the city of Damascus in the long ago. A young man of prominence, brilliantly versed in the law of his time, swayed with misdirected zeal and a passionate bigotry, mesmerized with hatred against the Christians and busy in their persecution, was journeying along this road.

THE fifty-fifth chapter of Isaiah includes a clear declaration that God's thoughts are not like those of a mortal. The Christian Scientist, in learning to think spiritually, accepts the definition of God given by Mrs.

OUR beloved Leader writes ( Miscellaneous Writings, p. 185 ), "Self-renunciation of all that constitutes a so-called material man, and the acknowledgment and achievement of his spiritual identity as the child of God, is Science that opens the very flood-gates of heaven; whence good flows into every avenue oi being.

THE human heart longs for friendship. Christian Science reveals the glorious fact that true friendship is present for all, in all times and in every place, through the understanding of the Christ, which Mrs.

IN the midst of the present world turmoil, when clouds seem to darken many horizons — economic, social, racial, national, international — the question of deliverance is in the thoughts of many people. Who will the deliverer be? Who will arise to save the world from its alarming situation? In days of old, Moses led a distressed nation out of bondage, and in different periods there appeared prophets to point the way.

THE listening thought hears angelic messages. In order to hear God's messages there must be quiet in one's heart, for it is during the uplifted moments when material sense is silenced that one receives these "angels," defined in part by Mrs.

"BRING ye all the tithes into the storehouse, that there may be meat in mine house, and prove me now herewith, saith the Lord of hosts, if I will not open you the windows of heaven, and pour you out a blessing, that there shall not be room enough to receive it. " A ringing challenge and loving command are definitely set forth in this Bible passage, and an equally definite promise of reward.

THE term "shepherd" is used in the Gospels to denote the tender care and protecting love which Christ Jesus evidenced for his followers. In the ninth chapter of John is an account of the healing by Christ Jesus of the man blind from birth.