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The Bible assures us that God created man in His image and likeness. Mankind, generally, has given little consideration to the thought of man as the image and likeness of God—of man as reflection.

There is much to be done to heal a torn and frightened world concerning the question of its maintenance. Many people are afraid that they will not be rightly maintained, and are struggling with what they call the grim reality of this fear.

In The Christian Science Monitor there appears each day a sketch of a sundial standing just inside the walls of an old-fashioned garden. The sketch with its caption "I Record only the Sunny Hours" is indicative of the subject matter immediately below it, for the incidents that are day by day related there are short records of kindly deeds—deeds of sacrifice, of Christian service, of unselfed love, of spontaneous courtesy, of loving consideration, in short, deeds which are fraught with Love's amenities.

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.

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.

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.

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.