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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.

JESUS revealed the perfect way to gain the true sense of selfhood which reflects God. He prayed, "Glorify thy Son, that thy Son also may glorify thee.

FOR all who are or would become members of The Mother Church, or of one of its branch churches or societies, it is important to recognize that law in the Christian Science church is not an object of mere formal observance, but is a means whereby the great objects of the church are demonstrated; namely, the healing of sickness, sin, and death, and the redemption of humanity through the teaching of Christ Jesus. The procedure of Christian Science churches, therefore, including the business meetings of branch churches and societies, is directly or indirectly related to these objects.

OF all important questions calling for a definite answer, this comes first: What is God? Then, Can God be certainly known? and, Can proof be given that there is but one God? The heart and flesh thus cry out for the living God. Commonly, theology is considered as implying knowledge of the existence of Deity and what constitutes the divine nature.

IN the drama of Job one of the characters is aroused to express himself vigorously against the platitudes of the elder men. Elihu acknowledges his expectancy that Bildad, Eliphaz, and Zophar should with age have learned wisdom.

IT is a common belief that there is both a dark and a bright side to every circumstance. One is even tempted at times to believe that the dark side is the one most in evidence.

"WHEN the condition is present which you say induces disease, whether it be air, exercise, heredity, contagion, or accident, then perform your office as porter and shut out these unhealthy thoughts and fears. Exclude from mortal mind the offending errors; then the body cannot suffer from them.

IF we were absolutely convinced (1) that God, divine Principle, is omniscient; (2) that omniscient Principle governs man and rewards fidelity; (3) that Principle "knoweth them that are his," as Paul says when writing to Timothy, would it not influence us greatly? If completely and positively sure of the truth not only that Principle is infinite intelligence, the all-knowing Mind, but also that Principle invariably acts harmoniously, would it not radically affect and influence our motives and acts, and in consequence the rate of our individual progress in Christian Science? The answer is: Yes, it would—if we were completely convinced. But the trouble often is that there is a flaw somewhere in the completeness of our conviction on the points just enumerated.