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ABRAHAM LINCOLN exemplified his belief that only kindness is worth while; for charity and forgiveness were the underlying persuasions of his every act. His beautiful life embodied kindness, even though he did not always meet with kindness in return; and it was his benevolence of thought, his humanity, his loving sense of justice, and his determined and consistent adherence to these qualities, which brought about the abolition of one form of slavery from our land.

AMONG Jesus' immediate followers was a young man named John, who has been called "The Apostle of love. " But he was not so at first; and he had much to overcome.

WHEN we begin to realize the wondrous riches of God's love, the blessings which His allness includes, and the unlimited good He is continually showering upon His children, a deep sense of gratitude fills our hearts and we long more and more to accept and to manifest all that pertains to His likeness, man. All good belongs to spiritual man, by reflection.

IN the parable of the good Samaritan, which Christ Jesus related to the lawyer in answer to his question, "And who is my neighbour?" it is stated that the priest passed by on the other side when he saw the man who had fallen among thieves, wounded, stripped of his raiment, and lying half dead. The Levite also passed by on the other side.

THE pure, childlike thought easily grasps the truth; while bigotry, worldly pride, and impiety will "strain at a gnat, and swallow a camel. " Of old, men high in the counsels of the mighty, wise men, philosophers, and in their day many Pharisaical leaders of religious thought, sought in vain to shape into something more than theory their erroneous concepts of God.

TO the so-called human mind the hope of change implies progress; but the human mind rarely admits that the required change must be in its own thinking. So, the necessary-progress is delayed until it learns to look within, rather than without, for improvement.

CHRISTIAN SCIENCE is awakening mortals from a dream-sense of existence to demonstrable understanding of real selfhood in God, and restoring man's heritage of dominion as promised in the Scriptures. Knowledge of the healing truth through which we may speak "with authority" to all error, is acquired by change of mental perspective, from the viewing of man and the universe as material to the realization that there is but one creator and one creation—God and His reflection or likeness.

HOW wonderfully a knowledge of Christian Science unfolds the lessons available to each and every student of the Bible! The Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy, is indeed proving itself a veritable "key" to the Scriptures. How it reveals to the inquiring thought the truth concerning God and man! How it brings God near to every heart hungering and thirsting after righteousness, and demonstrably proves Him to be, as the Bible states, an ever present help in time of trouble, healing sickness and forgiving sin! Christian Science liberates mankind from the limiting personal belief of God as humanly circumscribed, and reveals Him as divine Principle, infinite good, whose law is available in every emergency and susceptible of practical application under every circumstance and condition.

ONE coming into Christian Science from another religious belief or denomination may find he has to make many changes in his outlook on life, in his concepts of God and man, and in his understanding of his relationship to the Father and to his fellow-men. In no one thing, perhaps, is this change more radical than in the concept of what constitutes true prayer and fasting.

THE Christian Scientist, perhaps more than most individuals, gleans lessons of deep spiritual significance from the seemingly trivial experiences and commonplace activities of the day. Jesus asked of his disciples, "Having eyes, see ye not? and having ears, hear ye not?" implying that something more than appears to the so-called physical senses of sight and hearing may be found in those things which daily and hourly are impressing themselves, consciously or unconsciously, upon thought.