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ALL error—the opposite of the truth—is suppositional. Mortals seem first to accept error as real, and then slowly abandon their false position for the truth.

POSSIBLY no subject is of greater importance or of wider interest than that of government. In civilized countries many women, as well as men, are giving serious consideration to the question as to how to obtain good government; and even the youth of many lands are encouraged to grapple with this problem.

HOW grateful we should be that Truth, which Christian Science reveals, never leaves us, although we may appear to leave it at times. Discouragement or material expediency may enmesh us and try to reverse our progress, but invariably the Christ, Truth, turns us anew to the light.

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.