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"WHERE there is no vision, the people perish. " This is a truism applicable to all ages, individually and collectively.

THE deceptive tendencies of the physical senses are recognized by all thinking people, and yet through many centuries mankind has continued the practice of judging mostly from the standpoint of their testimony. He whom the Christian world acknowledges as having had the keenest insight into things both spiritual and mundane of any who ever walked this earth, strongly decried this tendency; and we have his admonition, "Judge not according to the appearance, but judge righteous judgment.

CHRIST JESUS ' words, "Search the scriptures," or as the Revised Version has it, "Ye search the scriptures," were spoken, it would appear, in defense of his mission and works. The healing of the cripple had preceded the utterance.

IN the book of Acts we find Peter rejoicing because an "angel of the Lord" had come and delivered him "from all the expectation of the people of the Jews. " The extremely hostile attitude of Herod and of those around him gave the Christians great concern, else Peter would not have entertained and voiced that deep feeling of gratitude; and his experience may awaken us to a need to be watchful and alert lest we fall under the influence of something of the same sort, from which we would wish to be delivered.

CHRISTIAN SCIENCE is based upon the fact that God, good, is infinite; that He is the one and only Mind, power, cause, including all effect—indeed, that God, divine Principle, is All-in-all. "All things were made by him; and without him was not any 'thing made that was made," as the Apostle John declared.

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.