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When for the first time there comes to anyone the privilege of teaching in the Christian Science Sunday School, he naturally turns to the Manual of The Mother Church to find out what provision the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, Mary Baker Eddy, has made for this work; and on page 127 of the Manual, in the order of exercises for the Sunday school, he is at once impressed by the demand for united action. First a hymn—sung together; then the Golden Text—recited together; the Responsive Reading—read together; silent prayer— offered together; the Lord's Prayer —repeated together—all this before the classes take up their individual study of the lesson in accordance with the Manual.

The Psalmist says, "Thou [God] hast given commandment to save me;" and again, "I will declare the decree: the Lord hath said unto me, Thou art my Son; this day have I begotten thee. " Man is immortal by divine decree.

We read in the Gospels that when Jesus was asked the question, "Master, which is the great commandment in the law?" he answered: "Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind. This is the first and great commandment.

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.