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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.

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.