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THERE are certain fundamental propositions taught in Christian Science which, when understood and applied, serve to clarify the mental atmosphere and dispel the illusions of material sense testimony. In "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy we read ( p.

" Her priests are all God's faithful sons, To serve the world raised up. " In regard to talent one reads and hears much; and a definition given by Webster of this term, so frequently used, reads as follows: "Faculty for effective performance along certain lines.

IN his beautiful letter to the Philippians, Paul seems to have attained to such an altitude of spiritual vision, inspiration, and love that out of the fullness of his loyal and redeemed affection he can declare: "What things were gain to me, those I counted loss for Christ. Yea doubtless, and I count all things but loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord: for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and do count them but dung, that I may win Christ.

IN her Message to The Mother Church for 1900 Mrs. Eddy says ( p.

AS they are published by The Christian Science Publishing Society, The Christian Science Journal, the Christian Science Sentinel, The Christian Science Monitor, and The Heralds of Christian Science, all may be regarded as gifts from God, through Mary Baker Eddy, the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science. Gracious and precious gifts they are, for they afford a rightly ordered way by which the students of Christian Science may voice something of their growing knowledge of Christian Science, and express their gratitude for what it is bringing to mankind.

FOR many years the writer, while living on a country estate, had the opportunity of watching the efforts of young storks to fly. With a frightened fluttering of the wings they ventured at first just a little above the nest, each day increasing their efforts and flying somewhat higher; but it was only after several days that they ventured to fly beyond the edge of the nest.

THE Master's humility, his dependence on infinite intelligence, his perfect realization that God ever expresses Himself through His idea, and his pure desire to be ever obedient to God's directing, were expressed in his words: "I do nothing of myself; but as my Father hath taught me, I speak these things. And he that sent me is with me: the Father hath not left me alone; for I do always those things that please him.

OUTSIDE the northern wall of the temple area at Jerusalem may be found the remains of a basin supposed to have been the pool of Bethesda, beside whose waters Jesus healed a man who, it was said, had suffered from an infirmity for thirty-eight years. The circumstances connected with this healing are related in the fifth chapter of the Gospel of John, where it is stated that a great multitude of people, having divers diseases, were waiting at the pool for a periodical agitation of the waters, when, according to a generally accepted belief, an angel "troubled" the water, after which, whosoever first stepped into the pool was healed of whatsoever disease he might seem to manifest.

IN no way, perhaps, were the wisdom and tenderness of Christ Jesus more apparent than in his methods as a teacher. Gently, by precept and proof, by parable and example, he revealed to his disciples the truth about God and man.

June 9, 1930 The Christian Science Board of Directors 206 Massachusetts Avenue Boston, Massachusetts Dear Friends: Deeply do we thank you for your brave, faithful, consecrated service to that Cause which our Leader describes( Miscellaneous Writings, p. 177 ) as "the greatest and holiest of all causes.