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AS students of Christian Science, we understand that spiritual man reflects his Father-Mother God, seeing only as God sees, knowing only that which is of God, eternally dwelling in His wisdom and love. Furthermore, true reflection is unerring, unchangeable, like God.

THE book of Proverbs was the fruit of experience, not fancy. Between the antithetical proverb in the seventh verse of the first chapter and the far-seeing demand in the last verse of the last chapter, that in justice woman be given the fruit of her hands,—a demand that is only now being at all fully granted, —the book runs the gamut of human experience.

THE blessings which accrue to the individual, and through him to the world at large, through the acquirement and constant expression of wisdom, were convincingly illustrated in the life of Solomon, as recorded in the first chapter of II Chronicles. It is related therein that when the youthful Solomon succeeded to the kingdom of his father, David, he was perturbed by a sense of his high calling and the magnitude and sacredness of the task before him.

IN the thirty-first and following chapters of Genesis we read of Jacob's journey back to his father's house. He had been a long time in the home of Laban, had married his two daughters, Leah and Rachel, had become the father of a number of children, and had accumulated much goods.

WHEN John the Baptist, crying in the wilderness of human uncertainty and confusion, prophesied the great mission of the Messiah, he strongly stressed the clear-cut distinction between righteousness and sin, good and evil, which was to be revealed. In the third chapter of Luke he is recorded as having spoken of one who should follow him as one "mightier than I.

NATIONAL prosperity and individual progress are usually contemporary, and this explains in some degree the adjustment and regulation of the various factors and elements which go to make up modern civilization. Christ Jesus taught, by precept and example, that the law of God is applicable to the satisfactory solution of every problem in human experience, thus insuring permanent progress along moral, physical, and spiritual lines, not only for the individual, but for the whole world.

WHEN speaking of little children, Jesus said, "Their angels do always behold the face of my Father which is in heaven;" and Mrs. Eddy, in the Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" ( p.

WHEN Christ Jesus spoke of the establishment of his church on the rock, he used the Greek word petra. According to an accepted authority, this word means a mass of rock.

WHEREVER one travels, even through beautiful and cultivated districts, one invariably finds here and there plots of what is termed "waste ground"; and, though one of the dictionary definitions for this type of land is unproductive soil, the fact remains that it usually brings forth one product, namely, weeds. This ground, by reason of its not being usefully employed, harbors the debris that reaches it, and common weeds, such as nettles and thistles, often flourish there in abundance.

THE importance to the student of Christian Science of being rightly guided in taking the necessary mental footsteps to a complete understanding of true being is indicated in a chapter entitled "Footsteps of Truth," in the Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," where Mary Baker Eddy has written ( p. 241 ), "One's aim, a point beyond faith, should be to find the footsteps of Truth, the way to health and holiness.