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ONE who had been brought up in slavery and had always thought of himself as slave-born, on being told that it was all a mistake, that he had been stolen from free parents and had really always been a free man, would be overjoyed at the tidings. His thought would leap forward to the privileges of freedom.

GOD is expressed through spiritual ideas, since He is Spirit or Mind. The recognition of God's ideas must, therefore, come through thinking which is spiritual; and thus, through purified thinking we know God, good.

ON page 100 of "Miscellaneous Writings" Mrs. Eddy, the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, writes, "Pure humanity, friendship, home, the interchange of love, bring to earth a foretaste of heaven.

CHRISTIAN SCIENCE teaches that everything is mental, and that the true concept of the spiritual idea, which is known to God, divine Mind, is the truth. All forms of error have only seeming existence as false concepts, and they can appear true only to erroneous material sense.

MUCH is said about demonstration in Christian Science; but not infrequently, also, is heard the assertion that someone is not making his demonstration. Many times some specific result is outlined as the desired outcome of metaphysical work; and when this expected manifestation does not appear, one may be tempted to feel that the demonstration is not being made.

IN the year 1866 a mode of thought which is revolutionizing the world came as a revelation from divine Truth to Mary Baker Eddy, the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science. Revelation is defined as "the act of making known what was previously concealed or unknown," and as "God's disclosure or manifestation of Himself or His will to man.

WE sometimes hear it said that such a one is "a man of substance;" by which phrase is meant a person who possesses an abundance of material wealth. It does not take very deep study, however, or very keen observation, to expose the unsubstantiality of this sort of wealth; for matter is constantly changing, fading, deteriorating, decaying.

ONE of the best-known passages in the Bible, and perhaps the most quoted, is that beautiful song of David, the twenty-third psalm, which begins with the lines: "The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want. He maketh me to lie down in green pastures: he leadeth me beside the still waters.

IN the Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," Mrs. Eddy says ( p.

EVERY Christian Scientist deeply desires to grow in the understanding of God and His Christ. The new student looks forward with eagerness to the time when he may be able to do the works which, in his awakened joy, seem to him supremely holy and desirable.