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IN the thirteenth chapter of Matthew's Gospel is recorded a remarkable series of parables in which Christ Jesus, the Way-shower, unfolds the nature of the kingdom of heaven, and shows how it is to be attained. In the second of these parables, that of the tares, he deals specifically with a problem which, perhaps more than any other, has perplexed the earnest church worker.

IN her explanation of the Biblical account of the creation of man, made "after our likeness," as found in the first chapter of Genesis, Mrs. Eddy states in "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" ( p.

EACH individual may be said to be well or ill, happy or unhappy, useful or inefficient, to the extent that he is what might be called materially or spiritually conscious. There are few persons who cannot testify to the misery of passing through a stage of acute personal self-consciousness.

IN this age of marvelous discovery and development, it is regrettable that mankind, generally, mistakenly believes God's law to be so remote and unrelated to human affairs that it ignores the necessity for conducting its business in closer relation to Christianly scientific lines, in order that it may achieve success. Nevertheless, through the widespread teachings of Christian Science a remarkable change is taking place in thought with regard to spiritual law applied in business.

To the student of Christian Science the question, "What really constitutes one's income?" is a constantly recurring one. The commonly accepted concept of income is found to be not very helpful to one endeavoring to know that divine Mind is the source of all good, for the prevalent theory is that income is a certain amount of money gained from material effort or from investments.

A thousand ages in thy sight Are like an evening gone; Short as the watch that ends the night Before the rising sun. Thus run the words of Isaac Watts.

IN The First Epistle General of John to the early Christian churches, the beloved disciple gave a characterization of the Father in such vivid terms that it cannot fail to leave a distinct impression upon the thought of the receptive student of Christian literature. "God," he wrote , "is light, and in him is no darkness at all.

THE story of Noah's ark presents many helpful and practical lessons to the student of Christian Science. As is well known, it tells of a state of wickedness and corruption in the earth, of a great flood that came and destroyed "all flesh," and of how Noah, being "a just man," was warned of God beforehand, and commanded to build and take refuge in an ark, and to remain there until the flood had ceased.

IN this age of rapid building and quickly changing methods, a tendency to slipshod, careless, and inaccurate work is apt to creep into the performance of one's daily tasks, even if one has a keen desire to do all things well. Error may argue that such a vast amount of work is expected and demanded of one each day that a perfect performance of it is impossible; that some new development to-morrow will undo today's work, so why strive to do it perfectly; or that certain portions of one's work are of no great consequence and need be done only in a manner that will "get by.

THE word "chasten" is defined, in part, in Webster's International Dictionary in the following words: "To purify from errors or faults; to refine. " On page 322 of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" Mrs.