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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.

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.