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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.

IN "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" ( p. 66 ) 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.

" IN him [God] we live, and move, and have our being. " Paul's unequivocal, spiritually undebatable declaration sets forth man's habitation, environment, and individuality for all to contemplate and understand.

IN the chapter entitled "Creation" in our textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy, are these arresting words ( p. 266 ): "Would existence without personal friends be to you a blank? Then the time will come when you will be solitary, left without sympathy; but this seeming vacuum is already filled with divine Love.

EVERYBODY is searching for happiness, for harmony, for peace. And today, many of those who have endeavored to seek riches in material undertakings, to find happiness in sensuous amusements, and to experience joy in fleeting pleasures are learning the futility, the fruitlessness, of such seeking.

UNDER the marginal heading, "Standpoint revealed," Mary Baker Eddy writes in "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" ( p. 239 ): "To ascertain our progress, we must learn where our affections are placed and whom we acknowledge and obey as God.

TO one newly commencing the study of the Bible it may come as a surprise to find therein considerable mention of the tongue, referred to by James as "a little member. " In the Old Testament it is spoken of, certain passages in the Psalms and in Proverbs reiterating the good or the evil results which follow the uses to which this "little member" may be put.

BY many, lack may be believed to have become chronic when to mortal sense it has continued for a long time. Many sufferers tolerate lack as an almost inescapable, even normal, part of their experiences; while they think of habitual plenitude as something intended for others more fortunate.