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JESUS said: "He that believeth on me hath everlasting life. I am that bread of life.

EVERY Christian Scientist desires to be free from erroneous influences. None intentionally wish to yield to, or come under, the domination of any influence which would produce sickness, sin, sorrow, poverty, or death.

THE earnest student of Christian Science, desiring spiritual progress above all else, soon discovers that he advances in proportion as he learns to love. The ever growing concept of God as divine Love which he gains through the study and practice of Christian Science, gradually permeates his consciousness and transforms his whole outlook on life.

ON page 242 of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" Mrs. Eddy writes, "In patient obedience to a patient God, let us labor to dissolve with the universal solvent of Love the adamant of error, —self-will, self-justification, and self-love.

DEMONSTRATION is a word of such frequent occurrence with Christian Scientists that they may fall into the error of using it lightly. It is fraught with deep significance, conveying the essential meaning of our work in divine metaphysics, namely, the proof of the correctness of our understanding of God and man.

IN " Rudimental Divine Science" (p. 1) Mary Baker Eddy answers the question, "How would you define Christian Science?" as follows: "As the law of God, the law of good, interpreting and demonstrating the divine Principle and rule of universal harmony.

IT would seem that the student of Christian Science, in his endeavor to understand the Christ-idea, has first to look beyond the personal Jesus of Nazareth to the God-presence which Jesus so fully expressed. He must distinguish between the son of Mary and the Christ, Truth, which possessed the Master as sunlight floods through a window-pane.

IN his messages to the early Christian churches Paul frequently refers to the spiritual quality of grace; and a study of the passages containing this word reveals a wealth of spiritual truth. He refers to the grace of God as bringing salvation.

CHRISTIAN SCIENCE is a panacea for all business ills, as well as all physical ills. A sick business, like a sick body, is the result of wrong thinking, and is many times the foundation of much discord.

THE beginner in the study of Christian Science usually quickly learns that a mistaken concept of self has brought much apparent suffering into his experience. He likewise learns that he has both consciously and unconsciously submitted to a belief in a cause and a power apart from God.