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CHRISTIAN SCIENCE is elevating human interests and, incidentally, social intercourse. Those who have not yet received the enlightened understanding of this Science usually consider their relations with others from the standpoint of personality.

WE can never be Christian Scientists until we know what and where God is; we cannot know man, we cannot know the true nature of ourselves, until we first know God. Our great need is to draw closer to God.

CHRISTIAN SCIENCE is teaching to-day the way to gain a clear realization of man's God-given heritage of freedom from every speculative and mischievous so-called law of matter. This teaching brings into individual experience relief from discord, as well as the practical comfort of holy aspiration, making it possible to understand man's true individuality as a child of the loving, ever present Father, who is ever ready to render immediate aid, ever available in seemingly the most desperate conditions.

IN the lands to which the characters of the Bible were native, wells containing water were of paramount importance. Men and beasts alike depended upon these wells.

THE Scriptures inform us that God created man in His own likeness; and Mrs. Eddy says on page 475 of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" that man "is the compound idea of God, including all right ideas.

THE light which the teachings of Christian Science have thrown upon the Scriptures, clearing up many hidden meanings and seemingly impractical promises, could not be better exemplified than in the true meaning of angels and what they are doing for men to-day. Since angels are referred to about two hundred times in the Bible, it is highly important that we should understand their true meaning if we are rightly to interpret the Scriptures.

CONSIDERING the needs of mankind, there is nothing the world should await more eagerly today than the unfolding of the character of the Christian Scientist. The call for men and women, as well as little children, who shall express more of God's image and likeness, comes insistently from every walk of life.

TIME was, not so long since, when many deeply religious people suffered from fear because of their belief in the doctrine of predestination as popularly accepted. Strange as it may seem, it was held that while the divine purpose provided for the salvation of some, it was also decreed that vast numbers would be lost; and this through no fault of their own.

WHO that has studied the Bible has not at some time thought upon the story of the storm on the lake of Galilee, so graphically described in three of the Gospels? One pictures the frail boat, tossed and buffeted by the angry waves, and driven this way and that by the relentless wind. Matthew says that "the ship was covered with the waves;" and one can well imagine the sense of terror experienced by the disciples, whose lives, from a material standpoint, appeared to be in extreme danger.

ON page 113 of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," Mary Baker Eddy, the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, has written: "The letter of Science plentifully reaches humanity to-day, but its spirit comes only in small degrees. The vital part, the heart and soul of Christian Science, is Love.