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OUR true employment is expressing God in right thinking; our true ambition, to be so employed. Jesus said, "This is life eternal, that they might know thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent.

" A REAL Christian Scientist is a marvel, a miracle in the universe of mortal mind. With selfless love, he inscribes on the heart of humanity and transcribes on the page of reality the living, palpable presence—the might and majesty!—of goodness.

AN important phase of the Sunday school work which the teacher is required to consider is preparation, the act of making ready or fit beforehand—of qualifying. Preparation is important, because, seen in its broadest sense, it involves one's entire living.

THE banker says, When money accumulates in banks or other depositories and is not in active circulation, there follows business depression or stagnation. The meteorologist says that when air currents cease to circulate and the air becomes stagnant over a long period, drought frequently follows.

AN increasing recognition that the elements of war are to be found primarily in the mental attitude of the people has spread rapidly over the world in the last few years. The increasing emphasis on the need for good will is particularly gratifying to the Christian Scientist, for from his experience in healing sickness he knows that when discord is seen as an error of mortal mind a long step has been taken toward supplanting it with the harmony which proceeds from divine Mind.

THE divine command given through Moses to the children of Israel, when they were preparing to cross the Jordan and to enter the land of Canaan, reads in part, "When ye are passed over Jordan into the land of Canaan; then ye shall drive out all the inhabitants of the land from before you, and destroy all their pictures, and destroy all their molten images, and quite pluck down all their high places. " Moses knew that even though they drove out or destroyed all the inhabitants, but left their pictures, idols, and altars, these would corrupt the Israelites and their progeny.

FROM the time that the healing works of the Christian religion ceased to be accomplished until the discovery of Christian Science by Mary Baker Eddy the term "law" appears to have been given scant consideration in connection with the worship of God. Law had been more generally considered in its so-called material aspect.

IN the tenth chapter of Matthew are to be found these words:"And whosoever shall not receive you, nor hear your words, when ye depart out of that house or city, shake off the dust of your feet. " Until rightly understood this saying of the Master may seem to differ widely from the tender compassion usually expressed in his teaching.

STRANGE , indeed, when viewed from the standpoint of human knowledge, seems the prophecy contained in the eleventh chapter of Isaiah which reads, "The wolf also shall dwell with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down with the kid; and the calf and the young lion and the fatling together; and a little child shall lead them. " Types more different than these, the one from the other, could hardly have been mentioned; but as we learn through the teachings of Christian Science to resolve "things into thoughts" (Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, by Mary Baker Eddy, p.

IT is recorded in the eighth chapter of the book of Acts that immediately following the martyrdom of Stephen there was a great persecution of the Christians in the city of Jerusalem. Many of these followers of the Christ became scattered abroad.