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SOME of earth's wayfarers, engrossed in the pursuit of earthly pleasures and not having as yet experienced many of its pains, have not been sufficiently aroused to concern themselves as to the import of their experiences and the distinction between what is real and what is unreal. Finding themselves quite satisfied with worldly attractions, they may have become willing and thoughtless victims of materiality through the satisfaction that has apparently come to them from its pursuit.

THE standard necessary for progress in Christian Science was established centuries ago by the master Christian, Christ Jesus. In life-practice thought must achieve purity, because it is the only passport to perfection, to spiritual living, harmony, health, and permanent peace.

Although the Scriptures give ample assurance of the completeness and perfection of God's creation, one of the most persistent and pernicious arguments of the carnal mind would seem to be that of incompleteness and insufficiency. It is not strange that mortals, separated as they seem to be from God, who knows only His own creation, should feel a lack of sufficiency; yet it is surprising how many forms and fancies the claim of incompleteness can assume.

ACCEPTANCE , as understood in Christian Science, is the act of receiving unto one's self—of making one's own—the priceless heritage of infinite good, in order that one in turn may send forth, may share with all mankind, the heavenly blessings which our Father-Mother God has prepared, even since the beginning, for all His beloved children. These gifts of His eternal love are already provided and at hand, to be accepted and enjoyed by all, without respect to race, creed, or circumstance; and we cannot enjoy them alone.

THE building of a Christian Science church is a testing time, a period of purification, consecration, and unselfish individual as well as collective growth. Church building is not only an expression of spiritual thinking, but a demand for continued spiritual progress; and sometimes it calls for a great sacrifice of material things.

IT has been wisely said that truth is simple and error obscure. Certain it is that some of the simplest of Christ Jesus' statements are also the most profound, containing spiritual truths vital to mankind.

CHRISTIAN SCIENCE has come to the world unfolding the glorious fact of God's allness, and teaching humanity more and more to realize what this wonderful fact includes and what far-reaching effects proceed from it. Christian Scientists are learning to understand somewhat that there is indeed no power but God, good; that we are God's children; that "we live, and move, and have our being" in infinite Life and Love; and that all good, together with the power to express it, has been given to man by his heavenly Father.

IN all human history there have been no more wonderful occasions than the gatherings in the various sections of Palestine of the disciples and the multitudes who came to hear the Master deliver his teachings, which were the basis for Christianity. Sometimes on these occasions the great Nazarene was seated on high ground; at other times he spoke from a boat on the lakeside, or in the fields and by the waysides.

" FREQUENTLY one hears the assertion that there are numerous ways which lead to the kingdom of heaven. To the travel-worn sufferer who through many long years has been trying first one way and then another to attain the peace, health, and harmony which he expects to find in the heavenly kingdom, and because of failure has grown discouraged almost to the point of despair, it must come as a relief to hear that, after all, there is only one way leading to the long-sought goal.

HUMAN life is as a school in which all are learning the lessons of Love, some faster, some slower. Every school has its headmaster; and multitudes are learning that the headmaster and chief instructor in life's school is really the Christ, defined by Mrs.