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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.

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.