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WHO can read the story of her who has been called Mary Magdalene, as recorded by Luke, without being helped by her unselfish devotion, loyalty, and faithfulness to Christ Jesus, who cast out of her seven devils, or errors. So complete was her healing from sin that in her regeneration she presents an outstanding example of true Christian discipleship.

IN that most wonderful of sermons, the Sermon on the Mount, we read these simple words of Christ Jesus: "Blessed are the meek: for they shall inherit the earth. " With how little understanding have men sometimes read these words! A so-called meek person has commonly been regarded as possessing few, if any, of the qualities of manliness.

THE salvation of the world through the loving provision of our Father-Mother God, is a certainty disclosed by Christian Science. However ignorance, indifference, procrastination, skepticism toward this great fact may be manifested by mortals, they have ever before them the inescapable experience of discarding false material beliefs and acquiring a demonstrable understanding of spiritual existence.

JESUS taught a great deal in parables, and among those which are best known and best loved stands the parable of the sower who, with such varying results, cast generously his seed upon the ground. The sower performed his task, and the seed was perfect in quality and plentiful.

THE healing brought out in Christian Science is evidence that the individual healed is becoming acquainted with true Mind. The experience of healing is the beginning of a new relationship with Mind.

To-Day , as never before, humanity is longing for relief from the burdens of sin, disease, fear, and discouragement, and is searching for a way out of its difficulties. There is only one way out.

The Psalmist sounds a comforting note of reality when he says, "God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble. " We all have the privilege of utilizing this ever available help.

Mortals believe, until otherwise instructed by Christian Science, that the human race consists of many minds; that is, each mortal believes in a separate personality, a separate ego, which he claims as his own, and this ego is for him the center of the universe in which he moves. Most people are familiar with the teachings of Copernicus, and his follower Galileo who pointed out that instead of being the center of the universe, round which all the stellar system revolves, the earth is, comparatively speaking, but a small speck in illimitable space which would be scarcely noticeable if represented on a chart of the heavens.

In the final chapter of his epistle to the Ephesians, Paul pictures the Christian as a warrior, enumerating the martial habiliments of the soldier and using them as symbols of the spiritual weapons of offense and defense with which the soldiers in the army of God should be armed. This presentation of Christians as champions of the right finds echo in the inspiring hymn, "Onward, Christian soldiers.

What is the work of the Christian Scientist? A fair answer to this question might be summed up thus: To see God's ideas, His spiritual universe, as God knows them. The spiritual universe, including individual man, is perfect and eternal; and through Christian Science mortals have the joy of learning this great fact.