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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.

" PERHAPS nowhere in the Bible is the real man's coexistence with God to be more clearly inferred than in the sixth and seventh verses of the thirty-eighth chapter of Job, wherein the foundations of the earth are referred to and "all the sons of God shouted for joy. " God being omniscient, infinite, it necessarily follows that, since He has always known all, every idea of His always has existed and always will continue to exist.

A RIGHT mental attitude toward adverse circumstances proves a definite aid to spiritual progress. Obedience to the law of God, good, is a refuge in all times.

MRS. EDDY , in quoting Jesus' message to John the Baptist, as given by Luke, "Go your way, and tell John what things ye have seen and heard; how that the blind see, the lame walk, the lepers are cleansed, the deaf hear, the dead are raised, to the poor the gospel is preached," added the following sentence ( Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, p.

WHAT a beautiful and inspiring scene is portrayed in the thirteenth chapter of Matthew's Gospel, where Jesus gave to his disciples and the multitude the much beloved parable of the sower! The record states that Jesus had gone out of the house, and sat by the seaside. When a great multitude gathered around him, he went into a ship, and from there talked to the multitude on the shore.

IN poetic language the Psalmist asks, "What is man, that thou art mindful of him? and the son of man, that thou visitest him?" Then he joyously describes man as being made "a little lower than the angels" and "crowned" "with glory and honour," having all things put under his feet. Surely, such exalted language does not describe a mortal, but the son of God.

IN the days of Bible history, when the problems of human experience differed not essentially from those of later times, this divine message came, to the prophet Amos: "Behold, the days come, saith the Lord God, that I will send a famine in the land, not a famine of bread, nor a thirst for water, but of hearing the words of the Lord. " At this present time, so momentous with the fulfillment of Scriptural prophecy, those with spiritual vision are correctly interpreting troubled, chaotic world conditions as giving evidence of the great spiritual hunger and thirst foreseen by the prophet.

CHRISTIAN SCIENTISTS do well to ponder the words of Christ Jesus. The great Master grasped, profoundly, "the deep things of God.