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TIME was, not so long since, when many deeply religious people suffered from fear because of their belief in the doctrine of predestination as popularly accepted. Strange as it may seem, it was held that while the divine purpose provided for the salvation of some, it was also decreed that vast numbers would be lost; and this through no fault of their own.

WHO that has studied the Bible has not at some time thought upon the story of the storm on the lake of Galilee, so graphically described in three of the Gospels? One pictures the frail boat, tossed and buffeted by the angry waves, and driven this way and that by the relentless wind. Matthew says that "the ship was covered with the waves;" and one can well imagine the sense of terror experienced by the disciples, whose lives, from a material standpoint, appeared to be in extreme danger.

ON page 113 of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," Mary Baker Eddy, the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, has written: "The letter of Science plentifully reaches humanity to-day, but its spirit comes only in small degrees. The vital part, the heart and soul of Christian Science, is Love.

AT the Wednesday evening testimony meetings of the Christian Science churches one hears, over and over again, expressions of great gratitude for many things. Christian Scientists everywhere express gratitude in their conversations with others for the mental peace they enjoy, for the health they experience, for the opportunities afforded them whereby they may bless and be blessed, for everything that is good and pure and beautiful in the world.

THE Scriptures abound in accounts of the consecrated lives of prophets and apostles, lives consecrated to holy thought and work. Because of their love for God and unselfed devotion to their highest sense of good, these servants of Christ, Truth, were enabled in times of great stress to rise to the pure consciousness of man's true being; and thus to prove triumphant over false material sense.

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.