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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.

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.