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AS usually considered, "vision" relates to the material sense of sight, to the effect produced by light on the eye. The metaphysical definition of vision implies a far deeper and more comprehensive meaning than that belonging to material sense testimony.

TO Jesus on the Mount of Olives came his disciples asking, "What shall be the sign of thy coming, and of the end of the world?" They were looking for the kingdom of heaven, but in spite of Jesus' teaching they had not yet learned what and where the kingdom of heaven is. They were still seeking a material sign, a speedy and spectacular herald, which should convince a material people that the Christ had come, and that with a "Lo here" or a "Lo there" there should appear a humanly visible kingdom, probably as richly imposing in its material splendor and power as the empire of Rome.

IN considering the question of dealing with evil through Truth, two statements of our beloved Leader, Mary Baker Eddy, stand out as beacon lights in the thought of the student of Christian Science. The first of these is to be found in her book "Miscellaneous Writings" ( p.

GOD is the one and only Lawmaker, and His standard, purpose, and plan for His creation is perfection. Christ Jesus, in his wonderful discourse, the Sermon on the Mount, sums up all his spiritual precepts, as given in the fifth chapter of Matthew's Gospel, in the one all-inclusive statement, "Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect.

IN Isaiah we read of "the voice of him that crieth in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the Lord, make straight in the desert a highway for our God. " To the Christian Scientist these words are full of meaning; for he is learning that the wilderness is that state of consciousness which sorely needs the Comforter.

IN presenting the parable of the ten pieces of money, which occurs in the nineteenth chapter of the Gospel of Luke, the Master's reasons for giving this parable are briefly stated as follows: "And as they heard these things, he added and spake a parable, because he was nigh to Jerusalem, and because they thought that the kingdom of God should immediately appear. " The story is then told of a certain nobleman who was about to go to a far country to receive for himself a kingdom and to return.

NEVER in the world's history has there been a more active inquiry into the nature and office of prayer than at this time—not only as a redemptive, but as a curative agency. The vital question has urged itself upon human thought with such insistency that group after group, in all parts of the world, in all walks of life, are acknowledging that there is this power of prayer and admitting that they must avail themselves of it, to the end that through individual redemption the world may come to know that all things are made new.

CHRISTIAN SCIENCE has come to this age teaching how to demonstrate the omnipotence of God, good, and the impotence and unreality of evil. Christian Science is a revelation; and the understanding of it furnishes complete protection from all evil.

THERE is a very beautiful lesson to be learned from the Bible story of Caleb of the tribe of Judah —the son of Jephunneh. In Numbers we are told that Moses, by the commandment of God, sent from the wilderness of Paran those men, including Caleb, who were the "heads of the children of Israel.

ONE of the foundation stones of Christian Science is the understanding of spiritual unity. God is accepted in Christian Science as the infinite One, manifest in His infinite spiritual creation.