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WHEN Paul gave the Galatians his far-seeing advice, "If we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit," he called attention to the fact that, while many are quick to acknowledge that man is spiritual, they are not so quick to conform their lives to the truth; that while they are willing to declare God to be All and His universe to be the universe of good, while in their words they admit God to be the only cause and creator, still they are continually fearing, even expecting, some evil, some misfortune, to befall them. It seems impossible for them to grasp the fact that if God is the only cause, and infinitely good, the effect of this good and only cause must always be good.

IN order to awaken mortals to the facts of reality, of Spirit, the greatest Teacher of these facts the world has ever known, Christ Jesus, used many illustrations drawn from everyday human experiences. Some of his parables and similes were word pictures of great beauty, while others were more homely references, such as that of the mending of a worn garment with old rather than with new material, or the effect produced on a large quantity of meal by a small bit of yeast or leaven.

THE great longing of mankind is to experience freedom. All, in greater or less degree, think of themselves as bound.

ALL men, we learn in Christian Science, have a right to good in full measure. We also learn from this Science that here and now—in our everyday experience—a great measure of good is possible of attainment.

THE term "personal liberty" is much in the public thought in these days of widespread discussion over individual privileges and rights. It is often so misused, however, as to make it appear as an excusing shield, rather than as the dignified term for righteous individual freedom.

CONSECRATION to Truth is a state of consciousness indispensable to a Christian Scientist. Jesus made it very plain that we should "become as little children.

THE loving charge of Christ Jesus, the Way-shower, "Suffer the little children to come unto me, and forbid them not," is the incentive of every Christian Sunday school. In an article written some years ago upon the subject of Sunday schools the following passage appears: "Great events were happening in the world in 1780, not the least being the formation of the first Sunday school by Robert Parkes in Gloucester, England.

ONE of the hampering beliefs sometimes held by persons who are seeking employment, or contemplating a change of occupation, is that they should have to continue in work of the same general character as that in which they have been engaged, and for which they may have been especially qualified by training or experience. This sense of limitation usually presupposes another and more deep-seated belief, namely, that one's ability is dependent upon an intelligence all one's own, a belief which implies the existence of a mind apart from and independent of the one infinite divine Mind, God.

MARY BAKER EDDY writes in her textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" (p. 128), "The term Science, properly understood, refers only to the laws of God and to His government of the universe, inclusive of man.

A WELL–KNOWN stanza which has cheered many a burdened heart runs: "The inner half of every cloud Is bright and shining: I therefore turn my clouds about And always wear them inside out To show the lining. " This method of dealing with the trials and sorrows of mortals, while a great improvement over a somber and gloomy attitude, can never do more than alleviate the results of the false sense of life in matter, because of the latent belief that these trials are real, either sent by God for some inexplicable reason, or the result and punishment of sins and mistakes which have been unaccounted for, or even for disobedience to physical laws.