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MANY have at some time been faced with the questions: Why should I die? Why should a useful life cease? How comforting is the Bible teaching that God does not desire one to die! In Ezekiel we read, "I have no pleasure in the death of him that dieth, saith the Lord God;" and in Proverbs we are told, "In the way of righteousness is life; and in the pathway thereof there is no death. " Death is unreal, the seeming result of a departure in belief from God's government.

AS we read and think over the great records of our Master's life in the light of Christian Science, we see that they are far more than the history of a sublime career which after a brief period passed beyond human view; for in them may be found the practical examples of the solving of problems common to all mankind, problems which sooner or later each one will have to solve. Every problem which came to his attention, Christ Jesus worked out swiftly and with precision.

MUCH is said these days about the difference between the youth of a generation ago and the young people of our time. The comparison is not always either a favorable or a happy one.

" And as we rise, the symbols disappear; The feast, though not the love, is passed and gone; The bread and wine remove, but Thou are here— Nearer than ever—still my Shield and Sun. " These words from the Christian Science Hymnal mean much to every student of Christian Science.

In revealing what true progress is and how it may be achieved, Christian Science has bestowed a great blessing upon mankind. In her work "Miscellaneous Writings" Mary Baker Eddy, the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, has said ( p.

The first impression of Niagara Falls, that great semicircle of dashing waters, is of energy and power unconfined; yet the whirlpool rapids below the falls suggest pentup confusion. The river that had broadened out, swirling round a large island, suddenly plunges into a deep gorge, and the great mass of waters is forced, foaming and struggling, between high walls of rock.

Organization is as old as human society. That organization is a present necessity, no one can rationally deny.

Looking appreciatively upon the lovely drawing of the proposed new home of The Christian Science Publishing Society, which graced the front page of The Christian Science Monitor not long ago, a student thought of the time, sixty-five years ago, when a gentle New England woman, Mary Baker Eddy, acknowledging her own healing by the one God, quietly began to awaken a world from the slumber of centuries. After learning the why and the wherefore of her own healing, she then gave to the waiting world, in her textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," the revelation of the law of God, good, which, when understood and applied, heals burdened, weary hearts of sin and disease.

Inasmuch as the "Explanatory Note" found in the Christian Science Quarterly is included in the order of Sunday service in Christian Science churches, it is the obvious duty of Christian Scientists not only to gain but to manifest a clear sense of what the "Note" means, and to recognize the important work which its inclusion in the service is designed to accomplish. In order to achieve this, it becomes necessary that something more should be done by the student than just to listen, be it ever so attentively, to the reading of the "Note" each Sunday.

To the Christian Scientist a study of the book of Job yields rich treasures of profitable instruction. Centuries of controversy, based on creedal beliefs about God, may have failed to explain its theological purport, but the viewpoint which Christian Science gives not only throws a revealing light on the issues it raises, but shows that it unfolds the modus operandi of God's law of healing and spiritual regeneration.