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JESUS the Christ came to teach that God, our Father, is divine, infinite Love, the one Mind, in which all good is resident, and to show us how to reflect Love, so that we may bring good into visible expression in our daily experiences. It is only material belief, ignorance of God as Love, that blinds us to ever present good.

IT has been tersely put, "Conquest pursues, where courage leads the way. " How necessary it is at all times to equip one's self with courage, the more efficaciously to meet the arguments of fear and lack so common to mankind.

WE hear much these days about getting a position, or holding a position, and many seem to be either striving for a good material position, or rejoicing because they have one, or fearing that they may lose it. The world has been in the habit of thinking that position is entirely material, and that there is no other kind of position to be sought for.

IN the realm of religious teaching the unity of a fact with its evidence is a requirement which permits of no substitutions or exceptions. A teacher imparts only what he possesses of belief or knowledge about the subject under consideration.

THE efficacy of gratitude in solving the problem of supply was demonstrated in the following experience. A young student of Christian Science had become a member of a Christian Science branch church and, convinced that the organization in its every function was sacredly dedicated to healing, formed the habit of listening attentively to every word spoken from the desk in order to miss none of the message and thus to participate, each Sunday and Wednesday, in what was conceived of as a divine service to mankind of consecrated thought and desire.

THROUGHOUT the writings of Mary Baker Eddy, the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, there is recognizable a consistent effort to lift thought above the evidence of the physical senses and guide it in the solution of the problem of true being. Our Leader frequently uses the word "problem," as, for example, in the following statement from "The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and Miscellany" ( p.

AS we read from time to time the precious Beatitudes with which Jesus began his wonderful Sermon on the Mount, we naturally consider the many virtues there extolled, and their rewards to those who manifest them. And perhaps we search our thoughts and weigh our actions to see whether we may indeed be worthy of some of the blessedness there promised.

ON the shore of the Galilean Sea, in the early dawn of a new day, Christ Jesus waited for his disciples. As they drew near, he called, "Children, have ye any meat?" But through the long night they had toiled in vain.

THROUGH the blackness and the silence of the night the clear, sweet song of the sedge warbler may be heard. His instant song bursts forth in joyous ecstasy.

ALTHOUGH the majority of persons believe that existence continues after what is called death, comparatively few believe they have lived before birth; yet nothing is more conclusive than Mrs. Eddy's statement, on page 429 of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures": "If man did not exist before the material organization began, he could not exist after the body is disintegrated.