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THE process of untangling false concepts from our thinking and supplanting them with the truth, must be seen as the fundamental work of each individual; and the vital necessity of its thoroughness must be apprehended, if one is to avoid the discouraging experience of frequently having to go back to correct the mistakes made in superficially applying the law of divine Principle. When healing has come through the application of the truth as revealed in Christian Science, one is often so uplifted by the experience that one's whole pathway in life seems illumined with the light of freedom.

ON pages 232 and 233 of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" Mrs. Eddy writes, "There is neither place nor opportunity in Science for error of any sort.

" IN the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.

IN the light of Christian Science, one of the profoundest needs of mankind is correct religious education. Such education is based on the understanding that God is infinite and perfect Spirit, and that man and the universe are spiritual and perfect.

THE humility which is might is a spiritual quality through which one can maintain a clear sense of his relationship to God, and present consistent proof of that relationship. This quality is allied to simplicity, sincerity, peace, singleness of heart, directness of aim, and fidelity to the demands of divine Principle.

HOW eagerly have many beginners in the study of Christian Science gone forth to publish the good news of the promised Comforter's appearance on earth, apparently with but a single purpose—to glorify God! And yet some of us, after going through trying experiences, have awakened to see that at first we unconsciously held in thought a selfish desire to share in the glory which we were ostensibly so eager to bring to God, and that even the motive which prompted our efforts to lead others to the truth was not wholly an unselfish one. Cradled in a nest of fallacious human hopes, swayed by self-will, self-righteousness, and the pride of our intellectual acceptance of divine Science, we dreamed in pitiful self-conceited ignorance that we might be very useful in advancing the Cause of this new-old religion, that many would gladly receive its message when we presented it to them, and that this newly acquired knowledge might be used to further our poor personal plans.

THE student of Christian Science never scientifically works out a problem without his thought reaching out with increased gratitude to its revelator, Mary Baker Eddy. Each problem that we solve in Christian Science brings to us a clearer understanding of the unfailing law governing the universe and the fixed divine Principle by which this law is maintained.

IN a marginal reading of the fifteenth chapter of the book of Proverbs, we find the words "is made plain," in the sentence, "The way of the righteous is made plain," rendered "is raised up as a causey. " This word "causey" was the Old English form of the word "causeway," which in latter years has been more or less replaced by the word "pavement," meaning a path raised above the road or carriage way, a path set apart for the safety and security of pedestrians.

GLADDENED with the inspiration of Christian Science, a multitude of people redeemed from sin and suffering lift up their hearts in joyful gratitude for the heaven-born revelation which has come to mankind through Mary Baker Eddy. In grateful testimony they acknowledge that their healing by means of Christian Science has been accompanied by an awakened love for the Bible, and that the spiritual understanding of the Word of God is to them far more precious than even the physical healing.

THERE is an innate tendency of the human mind to do what it wants to do. and to resist anything it is compelled to do.