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IN Christian Science practice, demonstration is paramount. It is not sufficient to say we believe the teachings of Jesus and of Mary Baker Eddy: we need to demonstrate the truth of those teachings before they can be of practical benefit to us.

ALMOST everyone is familiar with the story of Adam and Eve in the garden of Eden, and has heard of "the tree of the knowledge of good and evil" which was "in the midst of the garden," the fruit of which Adam and Eve were forbidden to eat lest they should die. But not until individual thought became sufficiently inspired, through consecration and self-abnegation, to receive the spiritual significance of this allegory did we have the true concept of its meaning.

THE Gospel of John abounds in clear, positive statements regarding eternal life. In the tenth chapter are recorded the loving words of Christ Jesus, in which he depicts himself as the "good shepherd," and thus explains his mission to mankind: "I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly.

IN the third chapter of Acts, in one of the most interesting incidents of early apostolic days, it is related that one who had been lame from birth was carried daily and laid "at the gate of the temple which is called Beautiful," that he might ask alms of those who entered into the temple. On a certain day, as Peter and John were going to the temple at the hour of prayer, this one lying at the Beautiful gate asked an alms of them, and Peter said to him, "Silver and gold have I none; but such as I have give I thee: In the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth rise up and walk.

THROUGHOUT the times of which we have any record, humanity has been earnestly reaching out for divine protection, seeking to be delivered and released from its fears, its doubts, its difficulties, its sicknesses, its sins. As human thought became more clearly articulate in voicing its spiritual aspirations, the acknowledgment of divine protection was more fully expressed.

CALL no man your father upon the earth," said Christ Jesus: "for one is your Father, which is in heaven"—and the Master knew of what he was speaking. In his words there is contained a profound spiritual truth, a truth, however, which was never fully elucidated until the coming of Christian Science.

IN her poem, "Christ My Refuge," Mrs. Eddy writes ( Poems, p.

A VERY great deal has been said about human footsteps and the necessity of taking them in our journey from sense to Soul. It is always helpful to study more than one thing which our Leader has said on any subject, either in the textbook of Christian Science, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," or in her other writings; for by so doing we get a better perspective of the point under consideration, and as a result our actions will correspond.

SON , thou art ever with me, and all that I have is thine. " Man is the son of God, dwelling forever in God, the eternal Mind.

MANY helpful accounts are found in the Bible of experiences which took place in a wilderness, and the prophet Isaiah speaks with great beauty of the transformation of the wilderness into a place of joy and peace. The children of Israel passed through the wilderness before they reached the promised land, and their experiences are helpful to the Christian of to-day who is journeying from the enslavement of materiality to the spiritual haven of Soul.