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The word "demonstration" is an important one in the terminology of Christian Science. In "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" our Leader, Mary Baker Eddy, says ( p.

The formation of a branch church or society, according to the Rules provided in the Manual of The Mother Church, The First Church of Christ, Scientist, in Boston, Massachusetts (Art. XXIII, Sect.

Discouragement should be recognized as an evil, tending to retard growth in character and check righteous activity. Certainly one who is floundering in the quagmire of despondency is not advancing along the highway to heaven, nor serving as a useful member of society.

Great progress towards final freedom and spiritual understanding was attained as the truth of monotheism dawned upon the Jewish nation. For many years after the worship of Jehovah was established, the people's concept of Him was crude, material, and limited.

Perhaps everyone is ready and willing to admit that the more clearly he understands a truth, the greater is the confidence he has in it and the less he is confused or disturbed by any arguments which might arise in an attempt to refute or reverse it. He remains secure in the truth proportionably to his understanding of it and his ability to prove it.

Nearly two thousand years ago the way of salvation for all mankind was taught and demonstrated by Christ Jesus, the Founder of Christianity. For centuries, however, the full, mighty, and practical import of his teachings was partially and temporarily obscured.

The understanding of God as "the great I am" ( Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, by Mary Baker Eddy, p. 587 ) throws a clearer light upon the naturalness and ever-availability of divine power.

With the eyes of the civilized world directed toward the problem of business, it is well for Christian Scientists seriously to ponder this question in order to gain a true idea of business. This is important, since the right idea of any subject corrects the wrong belief, and it is generally admitted that in the business world of today there is much which needs correction.

Causation is a subject the importance of which is difficult to exaggerate. Mrs.

HAD our Lord spoken naked spiritual truth, how many of his words, partly from his hearers' lack of interest in them, partly from their lack of insight, would have passed away from their hearts and memories, and left no trace behind them. But being imparted to them in this form [of parables], under some lively image, in some short and perhaps seemingly paradoxical sentence, or in some brief but interesting narrative, they aroused attention, excited inquiry, and even if the truth did not at the moment, by the help of the illustration used, find an entrance into the mind, yet the words must thus often have fixed themselves in their memories and remained by them.