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IN Sections 2 and 3 of Article XX of the Manual of The Mother Church (pp. 62, 63) Mrs.

THROUGH one woman's, Mrs. Eddy's, understanding of God, the Science of Christianity was discovered and presented in teachable and demonstrable form.

IN the eighth chapter of the book of Proverbs there is set forth the excellency of wisdom or understanding; and the appealing call of wisdom voiced therein is being heeded by those who have ears to hear: "Unto you, O men, I call; and my voice is to the sons of man. " The eternal blessings derived from following in the path of understanding are graphically set forth.

PRIOR to our knowledge of Christian Science, obedience may have seemed to be an irksome and unlovely duty, usually accompanied by the thought of being dominated and controlled by those stronger than ourselves. Often it meant carrying out the exacting wishes and desires of others and deprivation of our own freedom.

THE student of Christian Science has learned in some degree that as he gains the true spiritual idea of giving, this idea is externalized in an abundance of good from which to give. And as this spiritual understanding develops, it delivers thought from the false sense of lack, enabling the student to demonstrate the affluence of God, good, and to prove the words of the Master: "Give, and it shall be given unto you; good measure, pressed down, and shaken together, and running over, shall men give into your bosom.

" THEY shall all know me, from the least of them unto the greatest of them, saith the Lord: for I will forgive their iniquity, and I will remember their sin no more. " Thus wrote Jeremiah.

IN meeting the criticism of the Pharisees when the publicans and sinners sat down with him, the Master said in his characteristically simple and forceful way: "They that be whole need not a physician, but they that are sick.

THE Nazarene's advent into the presence of humanity was heralded by angelic announcement of "good tidings of great joy, which shall be to all people," heavenly voices singing, "Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, good will toward men. " And it is wondrously beautiful to note how these words were echoed by the multitudes as they strewed palms before him on his entry into Jerusalem toward the close of his ministry.

OUR revered Leader, Mary Baker Eddy, in an inspired acknowledgment to the Churches of Christ, Scientist, of Chicago, for their generous gift toward the building of First Church of Christ, Scientist, in Concord, New Hampshire, asks this vital question ( The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and Miscellany, p. 164 ): "What is this something, this phoenix fire, this pillar by day, kindling, guiding, and guarding your way?" And in her great wisdom she answers, "It is unity , the bond of perfectness, the thousandfold expansion that will engirdle the world,— unity, which unfolds the thought most within us into the greater and better, the sum of all reality and good.

IN the fifth chapter of II Chronicles is recorded a proof of the allness of God, of the light which annihilates even the supposition of darkness, or error. The glory of God was made visible; and, surely, it is to-day—here and now—the privilege of each individual so to realize the ever-presence of God that the beauty and harmony of Life as Spirit are made manifest.