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WHAT a wonderful and comforting thing it is that we have in the Gospels such a clear account of some of the temptations which Jesus resisted, so that we may thereby gain a clear insight into his method of dealing with error! It was immediately after Jesus had taken his stand as a prophet, and had been publicly baptized by John, that the Spirit drove him into the wilderness —a symbol of mental loneliness and of harassing doubts and fears, suggestions of the carnal mind typified by the wild beasts which inhabited its fastnesses. We read that for forty days Jesus fasted—abstained from admitting the claims of the material senses.

WHEN Jesus of Nazareth overturned the money changers' tables in the courts of the temple, it is believed by many that his act held far deeper implication than that of sharp rebuke to irreverence and cupidity. Considered in the light of his entire ministry, may not his deed be taken to symbolize the overturning of the material concept of existence to make way for the true? His authoritative measures on that occasion 'appear to be a step in illustration of this spiritual purpose, as were also his parables and the proofs of divine Principle given in his works.

THERE is in the thought of mortals an inherent belief that man has fallen from his original perfection as the child of God into a state of imperfection and sin, and that he has thus been separated from his creator. The fear which accompanies this belief, and also the undying love in the human heart for the good and true, have impelled mankind to seek a means of escape from evil, and to find God, the source of all reality.

NO one need be disturbed over the fact that the Christian Science religion is scientific: this detracts nothing whatever from its sanctity. It removes, rather, the speculative and mystical, in order that the understandable and demonstrable may be revealed.

ISAIAH expressed a glorious sense of some of the qualities of God as Love when he wrote, "As birds flying, so will the Lord of hosts defend Jerusalem; defending also he will deliver it; and passing over he will preserve it. " It is the defending, delivering, preserving God of love which Christian Science is revealing to the world.

MEEKNESS ! Probably no quality has been less understood. Yet progress demands a correct apprehension of the term, for meekness is an essential element of progress.

STUDENTS of Christian Science are learning to understand the works and teachings of Christ Jesus, and thus to appreciate the beautiful simplicity of his marvelous life and healing methods. In Christian Science it is made plain that though his teachings were not always fully understood even by his disciples, this was not because of any complexity in what he said, but because his listeners were not always prepared to receive his inspired message.

" LOVE fulfils the law of Christian Science" ( Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, by Mary Baker Eddy, p. 572 ).

IN true spiritual being, each one of God's children individually reflects God's beauty and glory, each loving, and being blessed by, God's complete reflection as manifested by all of His ideas; and over and above all is the tender, loving Father-Mother God, rejoicing in His perfect creation. Zephaniah declares, "He will joy over thee with singing;" and in the book of Revelation we read, "For thy [God's] pleasure they are and were created.

THE statement, "The Word was made flesh," which occurs in the first chapter of the Gospel of John , if taken literally and without regard to its metaphysical meaning, might appear both paradoxical and unintelligible. Especially might this be the case in view of the preceding passage, in which the evangelist shows that the sons of God are so entirely different in nature and in origin from mortals born of the flesh that the latter cannot comprehend the nature of the sons of God without the assistance of a mediator.