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TO every earnest student of Christian Science there comes the desire to unite with the Christian Science church. Well for him who heeds the prompting of this right desire and prepares himself to take this worthy step.

WHATEVER may be said in praise of independent thinking, Christian Scientists are increasingly thankful that they understand something of the truth of Paul's statement in his second epistle to the Corinthians, "Not that we are sufficient of ourselves to think any thing as of ourselves; but our sufficiency is of God. " Mrs.

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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.