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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.

MUCH is being said to-day of depleted capital and unemployment, and individuals are voicing a situation that has spread throughout the world until it has involved almost the entire human race. It seems to be a question entailing much uncertainty and suffering.

CHRISTIAN SCIENCE is teaching all who will listen the lesson of true giving and receiving. Regardless of his religious belief, anyone who has learned to sacrifice his sense of ease in matter, and to face the arguments and fears of a materially-minded world, in order to bring greater freedom to all, has touched Christ's robe and is thereby proving his usefulness to God and his fellow men.