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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.

IT is a fundamental idea of all Christian teaching that the heavenly Father cares for His children— guides, protects, and sustains them. Without this essential doctrine, Christianity would lose its appeal; for men are not satisfied with theoretical teachings, even though they do appear reasonable and promise much in the future.

WHAT occasions we have for constant rejoicing, in view of the fact that Christian Science is a religion that not only designates how to receive, but how to share, those blessings "from above"! God's law of recompense is inevitable, demanding that each share in accordance with his spiritual light, growth, and achievement. This law of Love is beautifully expressed in the words of a familiar hymn: "For we must share, if we would keep That blessing from above: Ceasing to give, we cease to have, Such is the law of love.

WHEN Joshua stood before the congregations of Israel and uttered his stirring words, "Choose you this day whom ye will serve; whether the gods which your fathers served that were on the other side of the flood, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land ye dwell," he sent forth an admonition that Christians of to-day may well ponder with prayerful sincerity. The children of Israel had left behind them the Egyptian gods, and had progressed by ascending steps beyond the aggressive foes manifesting themselves as Perizzites, Canaanites, Hittites, Jebusites.

IN the twenty-second chapter of Matthew it is written that when the Pharisee asked, "Master, which is the great commandment in the law?" Jesus answered: "Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind. This is the first and great commandment.

AT a certain stage in the writer's study of Christian Science there arose a keen desire to subscribe for The Christian Science Monitor. To satisfy this desire seemed rather difficult, owing to a sense of lack; but, having learned that a right desire is certain to be fulfilled, she knew that the way would open, and that she must be alert and willing to follow divine Love's leading.

MANY earnest Christian Scientists have experienced, while working out what seemed to human sense a long problem, moments of thought-weariness, when the limit of endurance appeared to have been reached, and the longed-for deliverance seemed to be as far away as ever. To one student came such an hour during a struggle with an apparently tenacious erroneous condition, when inspiration and spontaneity had fled and work seemed to be an increasingly heavy burden carried with lagging footsteps.

MARY BAKER EDDY has written in "Miscellaneous Writings" ( p. 276 ), "In Christian Science the midnight hour will always be the bridal hour, until 'no night is there.