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What happens when we yield to God's royal way? We experience nobility, grandeur, and the majestic unfoldments of the Science of Being.

FROM the Preface of the Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy, to the last pages of the chapter entitled "The Apocalypse," no subjects are oftener mentioned than man's existence as idea and man's indestructible relation to God, the creator of all that really exists. The sacred Scriptures also record the nature and essence of true substance as Mind, the only motive power as good, and the law of perfect harmony in all the manifestations of a perfect creator and governor.

IN our pilgrimage from materiality to spirituality, like the children of Israel before us, we may need to pass through the experiences of the Red Sea and the wilderness. Jesus, the Way-shower, had many trials and temptations while working out his own salvation.

A primal characteristic of a discoverer is faith in the unseen. He must think beyond, and often contrary to, the general thought of his time.

THE multitudes thronging Jesus of Nazareth as he went about on his healing, mission showed clearly the inherent longing in human thought for a more satisfying state of well-being than had yet been known. For many centuries that desire had been shaping itself and finding expression, to some extent at least, in both individual and group consciousness.

IN the fifth chapter of Luke's Gospel is a statement of wonderful import to humanity. Through the healing of the man from leprosy Jesus' fame had spread abroad so that "great multitudes came together to hear, and to be healed by him of their infirmities"—so much so that he "withdrew himself into the wilderness, and prayed.

CHRIST JESUS said, "And I, if I be lifted up from the earth, will draw all men unto me. " The great object of the Christian religion is to redeem the whole world; and nothing can prevent the ultimate accomplishment of this purpose.

THE evidence before the five material senses does not testify to eternal Life, but to the reality of matter, which is temporal. The carnal mind cannot cognize true Life: it testifies to mortality, sin, sickness, disease, and death.

THE genuine Christian desires to see men healed of their sins rather than punished for them. This compassionate attitude is the very foundation of true forgiveness.

ON that mournful occasion at Jerusalem when our Master, conscious of the imminence of his approaching crucifixion, deemed it necessary to prepare the thought of his disciples for what was about to happen, and addressed them in the beautiful words recorded in the fourteenth chapter of the Gospel according to John, he nevertheless was careful to supplement his announcement with the most uplifting and momentous promise which was ever poured into human ears. Was it not a joy bringing thought that the Father would send another Comforter, who not only should abide with men forever, but should teach them all things and bring all things that Jesus had said to their remembrance? It is true that his hearers, with but a few exceptions, did not fully understand the significance of this promise, and that it possibly passed out of recollection soon after our Lord's ascension, so that as time went on the realization which his words were intended to effect, of the ever-presence of God as the preserver and mentor of His children, gradually faded almost completely away.