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TWICE in one chapter the Apostle John avers that "God is love," and the Bible in many other places affirms the same fact in different words. On page 6 of the Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," Mary Baker Eddy, the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, writes: "'God is Love.

SOMEONE has called the Sermon on the Mount "the world's masterpiece of true wisdom. " Men of all creeds, and men of no creed, admit that there is nothing in the whole realm of literature to compare with the wisdom embodied in its wonderful verses.

CHRISTIAN SCIENCE brings to the world the message that genius is spiritually natural. A dictionary tells us that genius is "extraordinary mental superiority; highly unusual power of invention; origination of any kind.

" 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.