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WE have no data for settling with any exactitude the time of the Apostle's birth. The general impression left on us by the Gospel-narrative is that he was younger than the brother whose name commonly precedes his, younger than his friend Peter, possibly also than his Master.

THE Christian Science movement started slowly. Yet, by 1876, ten years after her discovery of Christian Science, Mary Baker Eddy (then Mary Baker Glover) had healed and taught a considerable number of persons.

"Oh! Thou hast heard my prayer; And I am blest! This is Thy high behest:— Thou here, and everywhere . " The revered Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, Mary Baker Eddy, penned the above words found on page iii of the Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures.

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.