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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.

IT is recorded in the Acts of the Apostles that "God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Ghost and with power: who went about doing good, and healing all that were oppressed of the devil; for God was with him. " Christian Science teaches that the works of Christ Jesus were accomplished in obedience to spiritual law, the law of divine Love.

THE effort to demonstrate the rules of Christian Science in healing the sick impels the practitioner continually to examine the basis from which he is working. The necessity for adhering strictly to the teachings of this Science, as given in the textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy, is ever before him.

THE redemption of the world is considered the great mission of Christ Jesus; and yet, in spite of this common agreement by all professing Christians, how many have understood the far-reaching truths in the Master's life-work? The settled conviction, that much of what he taught was for that period of time only, has been like a dark blind shutting out the light of Truth which Jesus revealed, that the shades of limitation and misapprehension might be dispelled. The belief that man, created in God's image and likeness, has fallen from his high estate, and that he can never hope to establish his God-given dominion until he has passed through the experience called death, is surely one of the most erroneous and cruel creeds that ever bound mankind.

OF a period in the experience of the children of Israel when disobedience and material-mindedness had weakened their faith and darkened somewhat their perception of God, it is chronicled in the third chapter of I Samuel that "the word of the Lord was precious in those days; there was no open vision. " The child Samuel had the most receptive consciousness in all Israel at that particular time, but the thought of the multitude was not open toward the inspiration of the divine Spirit: spiritual vision was not possessed generally.

THE word "practice" is defined by Webster in part as follows: "To perform certain acts often or customarily in order to acquire proficiency or skill. " With that definition in thought, every circumstance in the day of a Christian Scientist is seen to be an opportunity to perform the act of scientific knowing, to the end that spiritual proficiency may be gained.