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IN olden Bible times rearing the temple was a sacred service; prophet and patriarch counted it holy work. Moses sought God's instruction for every detail of the tabernacle, and received from on high the pattern in the mount.

THE student who reads the writings of Mary Baker Eddy with an understanding heart is touched with the inspiration of Truth, is uplifted, quickened, and brought into a sense of more abundant life. And sooner or later his blessings are reflected in his immediate surroundings.

SOMETIMES one who is striving to live as a Christian Scientist should, accords loving assent to a proposition of the Bible and the Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy, even though it is still necessary for him to study and pray to understand the scientific reason of its requirements. That which is Christian must also be scientific; and the endeavor to practice a Christian injunction will lead ultimately to the revelation of the reason for it.

UNITY of the people of the earth has been the ideal of statesmen, rulers, and ecclesiastics at different times in the history of the world. Men have given their fortunes and some their lives to achieve such a result.

What vague and diverse ideas have been entertained about heaven at different times! Many agree in imagining it to be a wonderful place where there is no pain or sorrow, and where everybody is happy. Yet these very people are terrified at the thought of death, which they think they must undergo in order to reach this wonderful place! Why is this? Surely it is because mortal mind thinking never does arrive at any satisfactory conclusion! It is so easily changed, and so readily influenced by persons or conditions, that after all is said and done it does not feel too sure about the conclusions of its own reasoning, and so is doubtful! Our concept of heaven undergoes a great change as we study the Bible in the light which Christian Science throws upon it; and what is such a joy is that one loses all fear regarding it.

Most people in a general way admit the necessity for obedience. Not so many, however, are willing to admit the need of obedience to the divine will; while all too few are willing to pay the price of obedience by eliminating from their thinking hatred, envy, jealousy, anger, resentment, and other evil qualities.

" My soul, wait thou only upon God; for my expectation is from him," writes the Psalmist. Can we say likewise? If our expectation is entirely from God, we shall expect good, and only good; we shall expect that only which is like God.

Human thought is inclined to regard a resplendent material structure in which God is praised with dignified, artistic ritualistic ceremony, as the correct idea of Church. Although such a church may be the outcome of much that is good, it may be far from expressing the idea of Church which Jesus presented.

The inherent ability bestowed upon man by his creator to think righteous thoughts and manifest good, makes it possible for us always to express Godlikeness. While we possess no power in and of ourselves, by reflecting God's attributes we manifest God's nature in our thoughts and acts.

David was convinced of God's constant care when he sang: "How precious also are thy thoughts unto me, O God! how great is the sum of them! If I should count them, they are more in number than the sand. " This surely is an acknowledgment of the allness of Mind.