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MANY beautiful experiences have come to students of Christian Science as the result of allegiance to its Cause. New friendships have been formed, homes made happy, financial conditions improved, better concepts of health gained; and fetters of varying forms of false belief or superstition have been loosened.

JESUS' healing of the man blind from his birth must have made a deep impression on at least one of the disciples, for John has recorded it in detail in the ninth chapter of his Gospel. But the question which the disciples asked Jesus showed that they had glimpsed but faintly the truth about God and man.

IN the third chapter of Ecclesiastes the Preacher says, "To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose. " He illustrates this by enumerating antithetical situations, among which we find "a time to keep silence, and a time to speak.

IN the first chapter of his second epistle, Peter refers to the "exceeding great and precious promises" of God. Though the Bible indeed abounds in these promises, mankind has come to entertain a skeptical attitude towards them.

IN Job we read, "And now men see not the bright light which is in the clouds: but the wind passeth, and cleanseth them. " This verse has a wonderful significance when read in connection with the definition of "wind" on page 597 of the Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," where Mary Baker Eddy has written, in part, "That which indicates the might of omnipotence and the movements of God's spiritual government, encompassing all things.

MORTALS want to "get on," as the saying is. Almost everyone has some sort of ambition, and usually it is in the line of material accomplishment.

THESE words of Jesus, recorded by Mark in the eleventh chapter of his Gospel, are most significant: "What things soever ye desire, when ye pray, believe that ye receive them, and ye shall have them. " In order to prove this statement to be true, we must understand three things: What God is; what man is; what prayer is.

THE mission of Christ Jesus was to bring freedom to mankind— freedom from all that is unlike God. In fulfilling this mission he not only unfettered those in bondage to materialism,—sin, sickness, sorrow, and distress,—but in addition, in his specific healing work, he proclaimed the glorious fact of a universal salvation in the divine promise, "Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.

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.