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THE order of services in The Mother Church and in all branch Churches of Christ, Scientist, is given in the Manual of The Mother Church by Mary Baker Eddy, and is generally adhered to by all recognized Christian Science churches and societies throughout the world. The usually large attendance and the earnest attitude of the worshipers in Christian Science church edifices are facts which markedly impress the public.

THE search for spiritual understanding has brought to the world gleams of divine Love throughout the centuries, and we of to-day are blessed by the work of every reformer the world has ever known. A poet has said, "That all of good the past hath had Remains to make our own time glad.

EVERYONE who takes up the study of Christian Science in earnest is soon made aware that he must make a new beginning with his purposes and modes of thought. Self-love naturally rebels, and urges that the course of safety and wisdom is to leave former beliefs undisturbed.

IN the Christian Science textbook,"Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," Mrs. Eddy defines God as follows (" p.

IN "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" ( p. 29 ) Mrs.

THE problem of lack touches the experience of many; but because it is a problem, it is solvable. The Scriptures teach that God, the loving Father, provides all good for His children.

A DIFFICULTY which presents itself to many people in approaching the study of Christian Science is disbelief in the Bible. The inevitable reaction from the theory of "verbal inspiration," so called, arising from the freedom of research which characterizes this period, has resulted in a tendency to think of the Bible as a collection of interesting folklore, Oriental drama, and poetry, admirable as literature, but of no practical import to the present generation.

THE true idea of Church is identified with no mere set of human conditions, historic or otherwise, which a later period might render obsolete or archaic. The Church of Christ, Scientist, in its purely spiritual aspects, is subject to no limitations or considerations of time, of environment, or of changing fortunes of men.

HUMANITY greatly needs a more vivid sense of God's nearness and of His tender, watchful care. Christian Scientists are learning how to come near to God.

LATE in July, 1908, Mary Baker Eddy, the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, in a communication to The Christian Science Board of Directors, expressed the desire that a daily newspaper be forthwith established in Boston, Massachusetts, under the auspices of the Christian Science movement. Although such an announcement had been hoped for, and had been considered a future possibility, it came unexpectedly and with surprise, even to some of those close to our Leader.