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ON page 371 of the Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy, there is a statement which should quiet the troubled human sense of inability to meet the human need, by showing the sufficiency and presence of divine help. It reads: "The necessity for uplifting the race is father to the fact that Mind can do it.

STANDING near the edifice of The Mother Church, The First Church of Christ, Scientist, in Boston, Massachusetts, a gentleman, not a Christian Scientist, was heard to declare: "I always speak of Mrs. Eddy as the Discoverer and Founder of the scientific application of the teachings of Jesus Christ.

AT a time in the world's history when the minds of men were in great agitation, a statesman projected into the arena of thought the word "self-determination. " Many thinkers have wished with great earnestness that the word "self-government" could have been used instead.

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.