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When the poet voiced the sentiment, "Oh wad some power the giftie gie us To see oursel's as others see us!" he expressed doubt that one sees him self as he really is. Looking deeply into the human heart, each one may find there a great longing to glimpse a truer concept of one's self, and that longing may expand to include a truer concept of others.

There is a useful hint for the way-weary and heavily burdened in the fact that Jesus, who bore the most terrible of all burdens—"the sin of the world"—considered his burden light. He said, "My burden is light," thereby setting an example for his followers; and throughout his ministry he gave evidence of the sincerity and naturalness with which he made the statement.

It is recorded in Luke's Gospel that Jesus once said to his disciples, "I am among you as he that serveth. " Can a member of the Christian Science church find a better motive than that—"as he that serveth"? And the Christian Scientist needs constantly to demonstrate these words of our Master in his organization work.

Every Christian and especially the student of Christian Science finds a profitable experience as the Christmas season rolls around each year, in contemplating the deep significance of the event which it commemorates. Such a review, of necessity, deals for the most part with the life and mission of Jesus the Christ.

WHILE miraculous in the means that effected it, Paul's conversion was no act of violence. There was an inward preparation for the revelation of Jesus, which brought to its issue a long struggle in the nature of Saul, and opened the door of escape from a moral situation that had become miserable beyond endurance to the proud and strict young Pharisee.

THUS came Saul into Damascus;—not as he had expected, to triumph in an enterprise on which his soul was set, to brave all difficulties and dangers, to enter into houses and carry off prisoners to Jerusalem; —but he passed himself like a prisoner beneath the gateway: and through the colonnades of the street called "Straight," where he saw not the crowd of those who gazed on him, he was led by the hands of others, trembling and helpless, to the house of Judas, his dark and solitary lodging. Three days the blindness continued.

IN human relationships it is indeed a delightful and joyous experience when, some estrangement and misunderstanding at an end, one enters once again into full and heartfelt agreement with another from whom he had seemed to be separated. "The middle wall of partition" is broken down, and there comes to the reunited ones a warm and loving sense of being at-one— in exact agreement once again.

A STUDENT of Christian Science spent many vacation hours near a small inland lake, whose placid beauty served to illustrate some helpful lessons. During the summer, this quiet lake, nestling among wooded northern hills, usually mirrors the graceful white-stemmed birches and the tender green of the willow trees, with their background of dark pines.

THE human exercise of reason may be correct or incorrect, depending upon individual viewpoint, experience, or the bias of education. That which to one may seem reasonable and sound, may to another seem unreasonable and unsound.

IN Matthew we read the words of Christ Jesus, "Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. " What an invitation ! What a call to each individual to awaken from the material sense dream, and look understandingly to our Father-Mother God, who is Love! In the spiritual realm, man is always in the presence of God, at-one with Him, safe and secure above the mist and confusion of materiality.