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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.

IN "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" ( p. 547 ) Mrs.

WHEN , through the understanding of Christian Science, the truth comes to human consciousness, prayer becomes the immediate and compelling need of the individual. The newborn spiritual idea requires its true nutriment, which is to be found only through communion with the Father.

WHEN Jesus encountered the ignorance of the multitude and the dullness of his own disciples who failed to grasp the import either of his words or of his works, he spoke of their lack of understanding as of those who "having eyes, see .

HOW sweet and rare is the spirit of that beautiful and prayerful hymn so familiar to Christian Scientists and often referred to by them as the "Shepherd Hymn"! With its rich simplicity, the depth and purity of its loving appeal, it is a fitting prelude to open and attune the heart to the inspiration and guidance of divine Love. This gem of prayerful hymnody, bequeathed to us by our revered Leader, Mrs.

CHRISTIAN SCIENCE unfolds the eternal, indissoluble unity which exists between God and spiritual man, between Mind and Mind's idea. It also teaches that humanity's great need is to learn, through the redeeming Christ-message, that what seems to be a mortal man is only a mortal dream from which men need to awaken, in order to find the real man, eternally reflecting God.

THERE was once a man who had to pay a penalty apparently out of proportion to the sin committed. His name was Achan, and his story is recorded in the seventh chapter of the book of Joshua.

WE are continually observing what processes and influences, sometimes world-wide, arise from small beginnings. Water from a hillside spring overflows its basin, and a little rill finds its course through leaves and moss.