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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.

THE real man's consciousness is the expression of the one perfect Mind, God. His ability to be spiritually active is therefore a reflected, not a self-acquired, faculty.

THE understanding that there is only one Soul, the infinite God, and that the Soul of man and the universe never is contained in any material form, is the basis of health. The belief that there are so-called human souls or minds dwelling temporarily in physical bodies, which are thought to give to such bodies life and action, is a mistake and is the source of ill health.

MRS. EDDY writes in "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" ( p.

IF one were to ask the average individual what, to his sense, would embrace all of the elements of true success, the essence of his reply would probably be that to be healthy, to have a successful business, a happy home, harmonious relations with his fellows, freedom from fear, want, and discord, would constitute a sense of complete well-being. A consciousness of well-being—a mental state—is primarily what all are seeking, so that, when seen aright, matter becomes secondary from the start.

IN the Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," Mrs. Eddy makes this statement ( Science and Health, p.

THE Church of Christ, Scientist, with its fruitful branches spreading all over the civilized world, is an inspiring proof of the healing and regenerating power of Christian Science. The commodious church edifices and halls which provide places of worship where the multitudes may congregate to hear the Word of God and learn more of the divine healing Principle, continue to multiply.

BRING ye all the tithes into the storehouse," says the prophet Malachi. The demand is for that which is justly due.