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DEEP significance attaches to the announcement heard in Christian Science churches at every Wednesday evening meeting: "This meeting is now open for 'experiences, testimonies, and remarks on Christian Science'" ( see Church Manual, p. 122 ).

PONDERING the meaning of words familiar to the ear, thought at times catches the light of understanding and, rising on the wings of inspiration, gains vivid pictures of events long past. Thus we may learn valuable lessons from the Biblical records of early struggles that led to a better knowledge of God.

THAT God is the sole creator of the universe, including man; the supreme intelligence governing all that is real; infinite Mind; and that man is God's image and likeness, is learned through study of the first chapter of Genesis. These facts are of primal importance to the practical Christian of to-day.

" BLESSED are the pure in heart: for they shall see God. " What a marvelous promise this beatitude contains! What a wonderful vista of possibilities opens before one's mental vision when one thoughtfully ponders the statement! To see God! To see Truth, Life, and Love! So clearly to see Truth that instantaneously all the dark mists of sin, sickness, sorrow, and pain will disappear; so clearly to see Life as universal and omnipotent that death will flee away as rapidly as darkness before light; so clearly to see Love triumphant in all its divine radiance and glory that hate with all its evil companions will drop into oblivion, and the brotherhood of man appear in all its primeval harmony! Surely, here is a hope so infinite and a reward so sublime that it is worth striving for to the uttermost.

THAT must have been a tense moment in the valley of Elah, when the shepherd boy David went forth to accept the challenge of the giant of Gath; especially as there was "no sword in the hand of David. " The contest seemed so unequal that exultation on the one hand and dismay on the other probably held sway over the opposing hosts met in battle array; and when the issue was determined so quickly, so completely, and so triumphantly, "the men of Israel and of Judah arose, and shouted"! In some degree the thrill of that hour has extended throughout all the succeeding years.

WHEN humanity lingers in the shadows of materiality by basing all its conclusions on the belief of life and intelligence in matter, it necessarily errs and stumbles, because it is untouched by the divine; whereas, when humanity turns away from its futile faith in matter and its false testimony to faith in God, even though such faith be at first feeble and expressed only by a cry to Him for help, it emerges somewhat from the darkness and begins to respond to the touch of divinity, which is always at hand ready to feed the famine of the hungry heart. The Bible, that great chronicle of spiritual history, reveals the progress of humanity, when touched by the divine, out of the desolation of the wilderness of materiality into the promised land, or that state of consciousness which has been awakened through faith to the fact that God's promises abound, here and now, and are ever available to mankind.

HANDLE error, or it will handle you. To this injunction all students of Christian Science will readily agree; but just how to handle error appears confusing to some.

CHRISTIAN SCIENCE is the final revelation of Truth. In the textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," Mrs.

THE cross has been regarded as a symbol of suffering, as an emblem of submission to persecution and death, supposedly in accord with the will of God. An entirely different point of view has been presented by Christian Science, which reveals the cross as the way of spiritual dominion and victory.

IN the first chapter and first five verses of the second chapter of Genesis we find the record of spiritual creation. We read there, "In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth;" and the narrative continues through the marvelous unfoldment of Life—of ideas of every kind, and, finally, of man in God's own image, having dominion over all.