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CHRISTIAN SCIENTISTS realize that the facts of real being, the Science of being, have throughout eternity existed and will throughout eternity exist unchanged. They know that all through human history there have been scattered cases when men through earnest spiritual effort have intuitively touched this Science and seen it operate.

WOVEN into the sacred Scriptures like a golden thread is the central fact of the oneness of God. Moses, the great leader of the ancient Hebrews, their lawgiver and spokesman, proclaimed this truth about God: "Hear, 0 Israel: The Lord our God is one Lord: and thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy might.

THE most spiritually regal event of the ages, the coming of Christ Jesus, took place where the world does not look for royalty—even in a lowly stable. The Wisemen who followed the star were led, not to a throne of royal splendor, but to a babe cradled in a manger.

DEBT is a world problem. Undoubtedly the right concept of supply can solve this problem.

THE divine Principle of Christian healing, as taught and practiced by Christ Jesus and as revealed to modern thought through the discovery of Christian Science by Mary Baker Eddy, not only offers the assurance of ultimate salvation, but specifies the exact terms upon which relief from the ills of the flesh can be attained here and now. The essential requirements of this method of healing are implicit in the Scriptures, but it was not until the advent of Christian Science that elucidation of them became sufficiently explicit for their application to modern needs.

IN making a careful study of the great Biblical characters, one finds it interesting to note that those who enlisted on the side of righteousness enlisted on the winning side. This was not always apparent to the looker-on; in fact, to the material, uninspired thought, those struggling toward the high goal of goodness appeared to be losing.

FEW arguments confront the neophyte in Christian Science more persistently than that of the difficulty of his situation as compared with the position of another. He has traveled well along the way when he gains the realization that it is his problem to translate his immediate environment into spiritual terms, not necessarily to translate himself into a new environment.

WHEN , through Christian Science, the Bible student begins to discern and apply Scriptural teachings to his everyday problems, the Bible, which before may have seemed to him a volume of ancient statements having no bearing on present-day affairs, becomes a textbook of essential and definite rules, practical of application to his own daily living. One such statement is that given by Paul in his second epistle to the Corinthians, reading as follows: "And God is able to make all grace abound toward you; that ye, always having all sufficiency in all things, may abound to every good work.

AS one goes about among Christian Scientists he frequently hears the expression, "I must make my demonstration of place," or words to that effect. To make such a demonstration is indeed not only desirable and right, but, in the last analysis, it is a necessity if the individual is to contribute his full measure of useful and harmonious activity.

ON page 490 of her textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," Mrs. Eddy, the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, has written: "Human will is an animal propensity, not a faculty of Soul.