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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.

WHEN Jesus uttered the immortal words recorded in the fourteenth chapter of John's Gospel, "I will not leave you comfortless: I will come to you," it is probable that those who heard him placed a limited, personal construction on his utterance, not fully understanding that he referred to the Christ, Truth, which he had taught and demonstrated during his earthly ministry. When speaking of the ascension in "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," Mrs.

IN some of our western states, where large and valuable crops are raised, there is so little rainfall that the soil has to be watered artificially by means of irrigation ditches leading from a central reservoir, which must be high enough to cause the water to flow to the producing field by the natural force of gravity. Hence, the reservoirs are usually built in the mountains or at some point higher than the fields which they water.

IN Christian Science, which is the law of God, divine Mind, all facts and rules are subject to proof. A dictionary definition of "proof" is, "Something proved or gained by experience.

PAUL made a most significant statement when he said, "We know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose;" for, studying Paul's experience from the time he became a follower of Christ, we see that his remarkable career was the result of his spiritual understanding, and that this statement was made out of his rich experience. In Christian Science God, good, is understood as the great I AM, divine Mind, the cause and creator of the universe, including man.

SINCERE students of Christian Science are increasingly grateful for the spiritual understanding of the Scriptures which is daily unfolded through the study of their textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy. Numerous Biblical passages, which formerly seemed to have no direct application to their daily experiences, now stand out as vitally important, and are seen to contain messages which have a direct bearing upon the solution of their problems, of whatever nature these may appear to be.

EARLY in his experience in Christian Science the student learns that the present is the time in which to enter into the blessings which the Scriptures promise for all. No longer does he look merely to a future state of blessedness, when every hope shall have been fulfilled and every doubt and uncertainty removed; he finds there are definite spiritual blessings to be experienced now, as well as certain requirements to be met before heaven, or a state of perfect harmony, can be won.

" ALMOST all people descend to meet," says Emerson in his famous essay on "Friendship. " Later, in the same essay, he makes a sweeping but scathing criticism of the manner of human meeting and greeting, when he says, "Every man alone is sincere.