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" And on the seventh day God ended his work which he had made; and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had made. " So we read in the second verse of the second chapter of Genesis.

NEVER depriving humanity of aught that is good, Christian Science goes farther, fortifying ancient truths and transmuting ideals commonly held to be remote and impractical into workable rules for daily experience. When Thomas Jefferson set out to draft the Declaration of Independence, he based his argument on truths which he held "to be self-evident.

ON the walls of a certain public art gallery there hangs a picture entitled "The Word. " By the glow of a fire a woman is reading a large, old, leather-bound Bible.

A SIMPLE , though very beautiful, account of consecration is given in the story of the Shunammite. Recognizing that Elisha was a holy man of God, this woman was of great service to him in providing for him a resting place in her home.

WHILE Christian Scientists are agreed that the course of wisdom is to do a certain amount of mental work each day, it may be helpful to investigate the subject more closely. When Mrs.

MRS. EDDY once wrote to the Trustees of The Christian Science Publishing Society, "Learn by experience and careful comparison to know whence cometh your conclusions" ( The Christian Science Monitor for July 2, 1919).

IN the admonition of Jesus, "Seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you," is summed up the divine requirement for that abundant sense of life which alone can satisfy the heart's deepest cravings. Spiritual progress, with its added incidental human benefits, is assured by following this command.

IT is admitted by many thinkers and writers on religion that the Fourth Gospel makes a deeper appeal to the sincere Truth-seeker than any other part of the New Testament. After an unbiased student has read with care the preamble contained in the first eighteen verses of this Gospel and grasps their profound spiritual import, he becomes more and more assured that he is face to face, as it were, with an eyewitness of the events recorded by John up to that wondrous "morning meal" portrayed in the twenty-first chapter, and spiritually interpreted by Mrs.

IN "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" ( p. 128 ) Mrs.

THE new birth, or spiritual progress, is illustrated in Scripture by the purity and innocency of a little child. In the tenth chapter of Mark's Gospel is recorded the story of Christ Jesus blessing little children; and it was during this incident that he uttered the luminous words, "Whosoever shall not receive the kingdom of God as a little child, he shall not enter therein.