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JESUS' pronouncement, "Verily I say unto you, If ye have faith, and doubt not, .

IN "Rudimental Divine Science" ( p. 1 ) Mrs.

THERE is a short sentence on page 449 of the Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy, containing a wealth of meaning: "Only virtue is a rebuke to vice. " In a Bible concordance "virtue" is described as being "in opposition to vice," and as "the generical word that contains all moral and Christian virtues under it.

TO those instructed in Christian Science, seeming adversity is seen to furnish opportunity for overcoming, through which are gained valuable lessons and spiritual compensations. In overcoming the ills which attend a false mortal sense of existence there come a peace, a strength, and a comfort which are invaluable aids to a continuous and greater overcoming.

CHRISTENDOM unites in declaring of God, "Thine is the .

THE feeding of the Israelites in the desert with manna was an occurrence of deep significance. It has made clear to people of every age the fact that God provides all needful things for His people; that whatever the environment, however desolate the outlook may be to material sense, God never forsakes those who trust in Him, but giveth freely of His good gifts to satisfy all human needs.

What made Amos, a country-man of Tekoa, leave his sheep and his fig-mulberries and the solitary places of his home, to intone rhythmic oracles of Jehovah at some crowded pilgrimage-festival of Bethel, a score of miles north, and in another land? It was not his professional calling; he was a layman, not a "cleric. " But the passion of a true prophet burned within him—the passion of social sympathy and keen resentment against social injustice, and the passion of faith in Jehovah as a God demanding the right relation of man to man as the beginning of a right relation to Himself, and a God able to enforce His demand by the events of history.

In 1821, Mark Baker and Abigail Baker were characteristic New Englanders of the better class who lived on their five hundred acre farm along the Merrimac River a few miles south of Concord, New Hampshire. Living with them were his mother and their five children: two girls and three boys.

Amos , whose activity is to be dated about 760 B. C, was a native of Tekoa, in southern Judah.

The world in general seems to be suffering from maladjustment, depression, fear, distrust, uncertainty of the future, and to be accepting these conditions as real. Seeking relief largely through material channels, it finds much of lack, distress, unrest, and various other discordant manifestations needing to be overcome.