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THE assertion sometimes made by earnest neophytes of Christian Science that its teachings are difficult to understand, furnishes food for thought. The very fact that one may be sincerely investigating its teachings indicates a spiritual force operating in his thinking.

IT seems to be sometimes believed that the business world is a sphere of activity set apart from all other human endeavors, and that it requires a different or exclusive mentality to conduct its affairs. Business men and women frequently justify standards of conduct and practices wholly at variance with those of their other pursuits, because of "business necessity," a reasoning which in itself is beclouding and mesmeric.

ON page 90 of "Retrospection and Introspection" our Leader, Mrs. Eddy, writes: "Who can feel and comprehend the needs of her babe like the ardent mother? What other heart yearns with her solicitude, endures with her patience, waits with her hope, and labors with her love, to promote the welfare and happiness of her children? Thus must the Mother in Israel give all her hours to those first sacred tasks, till her children can walk steadfastly in wisdom's ways.

IN a letter addressed to First Church of Christ, Scientist, Cleveland, Ohio ( The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and Miscellany, p. 195 ), Mary Baker Eddy, the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, has written, "The praiseworthy success of this church, and its united efforts to build an edifice in which to worship the infinite, sprang from the temples erected first in the hearts of its members—the unselfed love that builds without hands, eternal in the heaven of Spirit.

THERE is no doubt that Abraham, who showed such implicit obedience when asked to sacrifice his son Isaac, would bring up his boy with the thorough understanding that to obey God was the foundation of a successful, happy, joyous life. In the twenty-sixth chapter of Genesis it is recorded that Isaac, being by famine driven out of the land where he had been dwelling, "went unto Abimelech king of the Philistines unto Gerar.

MATERIAL theories attribute to the human mind certain primary powers or properties, one of which is named feeling. In the wide meaning of this term are included both the simple and instinctive physical sensations and the rational sentiments or emotions.

WHEN the beloved disciple wrote the words "God is love," he gave to the world one of the most concise and illuminating pronouncements of Truth it had ever known. This simple sentence has echoed down the ages, carrying with it wonderment and hope to many a listening ear; and its beauty has appealed to all Christian students through the succeeding centuries.

AN outstanding feature which is brought out in the New Testament is the progress made by some of the disciples in their later ministry. For a long time, the twelve chosen ones had been but dull and doubting students.

CHRISTIAN SCIENTISTS are engaged in the divine business of demonstrating man's inseparability from God. Through the wondrous light thrown upon the teachings of the Bible by God's revelation to Mary Baker Eddy, all mankind is able, where the desire exists, to experience something of the deep inspiration and spiritual attainment of the prophets, the apostles, and others who have been imbued with the spirit of the Christ.

IT is safe to say that there are few students of Christian Science who do not approach the truth, as revealed therein, in order to gain freedom from some form of error to which they believe themselves in bondage. Some find freedom quickly, others more slowly; but for each individual, freedom from some beliefs seems to come more quickly and more easily than from others.