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The gentle message of Christianity has been ringing down the centuries, finding expression from time to time in the utterance of inspired men and women, whose pure, noble lives enabled them to discern the secret of the everlasting verities. What a reward for their purity, for their unselfed lives, to be able to perceive that which sensuality and sin alone can claim to hide, that which is unchanging—the truth about God and man! All Christians know that Christ Jesus, the Way-shower, attained heights which towered above all materiality.

Every loyal Christian Scientist desires to progress more rapidly in the understanding and demonstration of Christian Science, to heal more quickly, to be more truly useful. A significant paragraph entitled, "True estimate of God's messenger," on page 560 of the textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy, explains how this spiritual desire for greater usefulness may be realized.

IT is of vital interest to mankind to note that our beloved Master commenced his prayers with the acknowledgment of the fatherhood of God. When his apostles appealed to him to teach them to pray, his first words were, "Our Father.

IT is often thought that it is good to make haste; whereas, in certain circumstances, though it may seem to be the easiest way, it is merely a careless method of approaching a problem, and one that may multiply our difficulties instead of scientifically overcoming them. This is a subtlety hard to detect, as haste has more frequently been presented to the human mind in its good aspect than m its bad.

MANY persons of eminence have paid high tribute to the power of music as a means of purifying and uplifting thought. They have dealt with music and song as an influence which strengthens the moral sentiments rather than merely a feature of entertainment.

IT becomes the privilege and duty of every true follower of Christian Science to seek and strive for humble obedience to its teachings, obedience in spirit as well as in letter. Awakening to a need to express gratitude, the student finds that obedience to God is the natural and necessary result of real gratitude.

ONE of the interesting and instructive phases of the teaching of Christian Science is the clear distinction demanded between "personality" and "individuality. " This arises from the fact that the ordinarily accepted concept presents man as possessing both material and spiritual qualities; while Christian Science declares the real man to be wholly spiritual.

IN the ninth chapter of Mark is recorded that transcendent experience of Jesus known as the transfiguration. This record says that as they came down from the mountain Jesus charged his companions that they should not speak to any man of what they had seen until "the Son of man were risen from the dead.

NO doubt the question has arisen many times in the thought of every sincere Christian, every earnest seeker after God, as to just how the so-called miracles of the Bible were brought about. Who has not longed to know how Moses, in the midst of complaints and revilings from the people he was leading out of bondage, could turn to God with such profound faith that the waters of the Red Sea parted and the children of Israel went "into the midst of the sea upon the dry ground.

JUDGED from whatever standpoint, giving is seen to be fundamental to all existence, since it makes possible reciprocal relationship. Under God's government, when enough of effort and intelligence and wisdom has been given toward the accomplishment of a righteous purpose, success necessarily becomes apparent.