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THE Psalmist left a permanent and beautiful testimony to God's allness, a timeless record of the abundance of God, good, in the words, "The earth is the Lord's, and the fulness thereof. " David could witness to Truth's abundance because in his varied experiences, from shepherd boy to king of Israel, the law of Life, Truth, Love, when obeyed, never failed to free him from evil.

FROM Genesis to Revelation the Bible records mankind's obedience or disobedience to the voice of God. Beginning with the questioning of Adam and Eve in the garden of Eden and culminating in the revelation of Jesus Christ given "by his angel unto his servant John," on Patmos, the voice of God, speaking to human consciousness, is indicated as present to instruct, restrain, exhort, rebuke, comfort, and heal.

THOSE individuals who have sufficiently studied the Bible and "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy have learned that these books unerringly point the way to wisdom, Truth, and Love. They have learned also that intelligent, consecrated, spiritual thinking leads to the fuller understanding that all true wisdom is of God and is expressed throughout God's creation.

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.