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BIBLE history contains many a statement of the oneness and allness of God, and of the availability of His protecting care under all circumstances and conditions. Divine Principle, God, is the one source to which all mortals can turn to find surcease from earthly cares and trials.

IN an inspired declaration our beloved Leader states that "the Magna Charta of Christian Science means much," that it is "essentially democratic" ( The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and Miscellany, pp. 246, 247 ), and then she defines the essence of its democracy in a striking and inclusive phrase: "Its government is administered by the common consent of the governed, wherein and whereby man governed by his creator is self-governed.

FORTUNATELY the vast majority of men and women can look back to some time in their past history and think with a warm glow of happiness and gratitude of a place they called home. Upon analysis, it is clearly seen that above all things which help to make this beloved word "home" stand out, as though outlined with a halo of brightest light, is the presence there of a tender, loving earthly father and mother.

EVERY earnest Christian Science practitioner longs for that clear understanding of the Christ which will bring instantaneous healings such as resulted from Jesus' efforts. Mrs.

THE bugle-call to spiritual advancement, from Genesis to Revelation, is overcoming. "Be not overcome of evil, but overcome evil with good," must therefore be the Christian Scientist's working motto, when he sets out to prove the availability of the divine Principle, God, who is good.

The religion of Jesus is the spirit of comradeship raised to its highest power, the spirit which perceives itself to be "not alone," but lovingly befriended and supported, extending its intuitions to the heart of the world, to the core of reality, and finding there the fellowship, the loyalty, the powerful response, the love, of which the finest fellowships and loyalties of earth are the shadows and the foretaste. In its essence the Gospel is a call to make the same experiment, the experiment of comradeship, the experiment of fellowship, the experiment of trusting the heart of things, throwing self-care to the winds, in the sure and certain faith that you will not be deserted, forsaken, nor betrayed, and that your ultimate interests are perfectly secure in the hands of the Great Companion.

THE road to peace and contentment is made a joyous and hopeful one through the clear, demonstrable, logical teachings of Christian Science. "What is thy birthright, man, Child of the perfect One! What is thy Father's plan For His beloved son?" The answer to this question becomes the possession of each one of us through the understanding of man's eternal unity with God, of man's inseparability from the all-knowing Mind, revealed through God's messenger to this age, Mary Baker Eddy.

THE true meaning of many passages of the Holy Scriptures is revealed only through spiritual interpretation of them. When Jesus said, "This is life eternal, that they might know thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent," it is evident that he wanted to impress upon his followers that man's real life does not depend upon material conditions, so-called health laws, and so on, but upon the right concept of God and His Christ.

WHEN Addison puts into the mouth of one of his characters the words, 'Tis not in mortals to command success, But we 'II do more, Sempronius,— We 'II deserve it, he at least hints at a great truth. Success is defined by lexicographers as the attainment of some desired end; and conceived of humanly, it has ever appeared to be a highly uncertain and elusive quantity.

THE first evidence of spiritual growth is gratitude. And we shall look in vain for the demonstration of truth, life, and love until this evidence has shown itself.