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EVERY student of Christian Science knows that he is a Christian Scientist only to the degree that he is bringing into his daily experiences the teachings of the master Christian, Christ Jesus—only to the degree that he is proving by demonstration that the Christ, Truth, does meet every human need. No problem in mathematics, when accurately worked out step by step, is more certain of a correct result than is the following statement of Jesus certain of fulfillment: "He that believeth on me, the works that I do shall he do also; and greater works than these shall he do; because I go unto my Father.

IN order to appreciate the full significance of the Ten Commandments, it is necessary to understand something of the conditions existing in the social and political world of Moses' time. The peoples and civilizations surrounding the Israelites were without a code of moral law.

THE Christian Science organization is presenting to the world the truth about Church and the functions of church. Its great Founder, Mary Baker Eddy, clearly saw the necessity of an organization to support and protect the teachings of Christian Science.

ON one of the most memorable occasions, from a spiritual viewpoint, because there had just dawned upon human consciousness the great fact that disease could be healed through Truth by all who were ready to receive the proper spiritual instructions, Christ Jesus said to his exultant students, "Rejoice not. that the spirits are subject unto you; but rather rejoice, because your names are written in heaven.

PATIENCE, untinged by resignation, is a spiritual, steadfast quality which abides through the long watches, and is at last crowned with the joy of demonstration. Mortals who fear that they may fail before dawn breaks into the morning of salvation are not yet relying absolutely on divine Mind for perpetual expression of faith, patience, fidelity, inspiration, and spiritual courage.

IN Revelation we read of the "pure river of water of life, clear as crystal, proceeding out of the throne of God and of the Lamb. " Forever this river flows from the throne of God, its healing waters cleansing the nations of sin, disease, and death.

IN the Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" ( p. 583 ), Mary Baker Eddy defines "Church," in part, as "the structure of Truth and Love; whatever rests upon and proceeds from divine Principle.

TO those who may be tempted to feel that God, good, is far removed from their daily experience,—that God is afar off,—what could give greater confidence than the words from Psalms which declare our inseparability from God? "Whither shall I go from thy spirit? or whither shall I flee from thy presence? If I ascend up into heaven, thou art there: if I make my bed in hell, behold, thou art there. If I take the wings of the morning, and dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea; even there shall thy hand lead me, and thy right hand shall hold me.

AMONG the many inspiring messages that come to us from the prophet Isaiah, we find one in the form of a question: "Who is this that cometh from Edom, with dyed garments from Bozrah? this that is glorious in his apparel, travelling in the greatness of his strength? .

" WHY am I having so much trouble?" a sufferer once asked a friend. The answer was very promptly given, "Because you are forgetting your relationship to God.