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JESUS ' words and deeds .

THE writer of the epistle to the Hebrews, counseling the brethren to be diligent in seeking the full meaning of the Christian hope, following the example "of them who through faith and patience inherit the promises" of God, urges them "to lay hold upon the hope set before us: which hope," he says, "we have as an anchor of the soul, both sure and stedfast, and which entereth into that within the veil. " Those who have turned to divine Love seeking to lay hold upon the rich promises held out by Christian Science, learn that this "anchor of the soul" must be cast into the spiritual realm wherein is the presence and power of the Most High.

IN the thirtieth chapter of I Samuel is the account of David's finding, on his return to Ziklag, that the city had been destroyed and the inhabitants taken captive. His distress was intensified at first when those who were with him "spake of stoning him.

THE educated belief that limitation is inevitable is perhaps the most commonly encountered and the least understood of all human besetments. A dictionary defines "limitation" as a "boundary, restriction, a defining circumstance.

EVERY student of Christian Science can and ultimately must declare and realize that God is his Life. No one except Christ Jesus has understood so much of the meaning conveyed by those words as Mrs.

EVERY earnest Christian desires above all else so to live as to be worthy of that "Well done" bestowed by the Master upon the faithful servant. This reward can come only as the result of consistent alertness—alertness, that is, both to the impotence of evil and to the omnipotence of good.

WHEN David, the modest shepherd boy, went forth to challenge the arrogant Goliath, his sturdy reliance on the one infinite God beamed forth in the innocence of his countenance and the calmness with which he met the giant foe. With his understanding of love as the law of God, he encountered and overcame the towering, warlike Philistine, recorded as possessing that which mortal mind holds dear—awe-inspiring physicality, bravado, and a sense of might which is but an erroneous material belief.

SPIRITUAL man, God's perfect image and likeness, is forever free, intelligent, active, manifesting his harmonious sonship with the Father. As students of Christian Science study the Bible and the Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy, and through constant correction of thought free themselves from depressing, unreal mortal beliefs, false arguments, and apprehensions, consciously recognizing the fact that man dwells permanently in eternal Spirit, their thinking unfolds to the point of rational reliance on God.

GRATITUDE is as the perfume of the rose that ladens the morning air at the coming of the dawn. It spreads as the song of the first robin in the spring is picked up by the breeze and carried on until other robins awaken and join in the melody.

SETTING on one side the obvious merit and use of ordinary education, the great need of the world today is spiritual education. One may say that spiritual values are, generally speaking, but dimly perceived, and are therefore woefully neglected.