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OUR beloved Leader, Mary Baker Eddy, tells us in "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" ( p. 520 ) that "growth is the eternal mandate of Mind.

" I WILL not let thee go, except thou bless me"! This was Jacob's cry when, as the day began to break, the angel with whom the material sense of life and love had been striving in his human consciousness seemed about to leave him. Of this spiritual experience Mrs.

FROM the Bible account of the building of the tower of Babel it may be inferred that the people were in a state of carnal-minded self-sufficiency and pride of personal accomplishment. They believed their fancied order firmly established on the basis of a supposititious mortal law of order, and thought that on that basis they could build a structure which should reach to heaven.

CAN one child of God be more blessed than another? Does the creator, who is divine Love, shower upon one person or one nation prosperity, health, and well-being, and meagerly provide for others? In the Bible we find ample assurance of impartial provision for every one of God's children in the words, "Son, thou art ever with me, and all that I have is thine. " This impersonal and universal law, as set forth in the parable of the prodigal son, was voiced by the father when the elder brother complained over the joyous reception and bountiful gifts given the returning prodigal, while no such joy had been evidenced over his own faithful and continued obedience.

IF one is endeavoring to live for all mankind he is learning what true living means, and he is learning what true loving means. Spiritually considered, there is small difference of meaning between the two words "live" and "love.

ONE of the many blessings which comes to the teacher in the Christian Science Sunday School is that in letting God speak through him he is privileged to give the saving truth to the children. This good seed sown in the fertile soil of the receptive child-consciousness can never be lost and should grow and blossom and give out perfect fruitage.

THE world cannot be saved by ignorance. Job cried, "Oh that I knew where I might find him!" Job uttered this cry notwithstanding the knowledge he had gained that God "is in one mind.

ALL civilized mankind is striving for what it calls progress. The Christian Scientist has reason to be keenly interested in the progressive activities of the world, for he is gratefully learning something of the nature of true progress and how human limitations are removed.

THE aims of all science are two: first, to understand the nature of man and of the universe in which mankind live; secondly, to obtain through this understanding conscious control over his surroundings. The first aim, to learn the truth about all things, is really the primary object of scientific study; but perhaps the stronger motive behind the vast modern development of scientific research is the realization that only as man understands himself and his surroundings can he hope to master and control them.

IN the practice of Christian Science a very sacred and tender relationship is established between patient and practitioner. It may be likened to a little child's placing his hand in that of an elder brother while both go home to father and mother, the little one trustingly confident that his brother knows the way, the brother encouraging and helping onward the footsteps of the child with loving assurance.