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It is a remarkable fact that from the very earliest periods of human history the idea of sacrifice has played a large part in every religion, even the most primitive. The fundamental reason for this is not difficult to see, as it seems highly probable that one of the earliest impulses of the human mind, groping in the dark for something to guide it through its inexplicable surroundings, would be to placate the unseen forces which apparently either blessed or ruined its means of subsistence, that is, its crops and its herds.

Throughout the Scriptures we read of the beneficial results of rejoicing. Again and again we find prophets and apostles, when confronted by some trial, turning to God with expressions of joy.

Centuries ago, wise men of the Orient, bearing rich gifts, traveled westward seeking the Christ. Never unmindful of the guiding star, they followed until it led them to the stable in Bethlehem where Mary, having pondered in her heart the vision revealed to her by the angel, had given birth to her son Jesus, who was to manifest to a waiting world more of the Christ than it had ever known before.

WHEN an individual goes to a musician, a teacher of music, and seems to manifest many erroneous notions concerning music, the teacher is not at all alarmed at this sense of discord, but immediately begins to separate the errors from the pupil. He does this, not by holding fast to the discord, but by turning the thought of the pupil to the harmony of music.

  " 'Take up thy cross,' the Saviour said, If thou wouldst my disciple be; Deny thyself, the world forsake, And humbly follow after me. " In this stanza we are not only told to take up the cross, but we are also told what the cross is.

IN the beginning the creator, God, whom Christ Jesus declared to be Spirit, established one creation, the universe including man. In the twenty-seventh verse of the first chapter of Genesis, it is recorded that "God created man in his own image," and in the thirty-first verse, that God saw that His creation was "very good.

TRUE consistency is possible of attainment in the experience of all who turn to Christian Science for healing of any sort. The doubts, fears, and uncertainties inherent in human thought are due to the inconsistency of all that is unlike God.

ACCORDING to the Scriptural allegory, a serpent, a strange talking serpent, appeared to Eve in the Garden of Eden. Mary Baker Eddy in part defines "serpent" in the Glossary to "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" ( p.

THE opportune moment, fraught with illimitable promise, invariably comes to those who are ready for it, and happy is he who then seizes it and casts his net upon the right side. Such a propitious moment once came to the children of Israel, when, according to the third chapter of the book of Joshua, they crossed the river Jordan, the final geographical barrier that then lay between them and the "land flowing with milk and honey," which ages before had been promised to their forefathers for them.

WITH what rare simplicity is the profound fact stated in the first verse of the Bible, "In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth"! With equal profundity and simplicity Mrs. Eddy enlarges upon this statement on page 502 of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," when she says, "This word beginning is employed to signify the only ,— that is, the eternal verity and unity of God and man, including the universe.