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According to the  twentieth chapter of Exodus , the fourth commandment reads as follows: "Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy. Six days shalt thou labour, and do all thy work: but the seventh day is the sabbath of the Lord thy God: in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates: for in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day: wherefore the Lord blessed the sabbath day, and hallowed it.

The call of the Christ promises rest to the weary and heavy laden. To the heavy-laden, those who do not know whence they came, life and existence are a mystery, a matter of chance or fate.

"Beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits whether they are of God: because many false prophets are gone out into the world .

Of all God's promises to His children, it is doubtful if any offer more satisfying rewards than those held out as the fruits of a willing heart and mind. Our beloved Leader, Mary Baker Eddy, reminds us in the Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" ( pp.

A liner crossing the Atlantic ran into a fog one evening. One of the passengers, a student of Christian Science, ill at ease over what was a familiar enough experience, retired early to his cabin to study those parts of the Bible, and of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy, which elucidate the question of "mist.

Keep the commandments. " Thus are we enjoined many times throughout both the Old and the New Testament.

" In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. " This opening sentence of the Bible should furnish the foundation for Christian thinking.

To every one the Ten Commandments should be both guide and guard. Mankind has been commanded to obey them, not because obedience could in any way render a favor to or bestow a blessing upon God, but because such obedience opens consciousness to the realization of the blessings which God's love bestows upon men.

The ever recurring season of preparation for the presentation, under the auspices of a branch church or society, of a free public lecture on Christian Science by a member of the Board of Lectureship of The Mother Church, brings with it the joyful opportunity for right thinking concerning the various problems incident to such preparation. Right thinking is not alone the duty of those to whom specific work may fall under the particular method adopted for the handling of the plans for the lecture, but rather it is the duty of every member of the church; for without unified right thinking, the spiritual or mental structure of Truth and Love cannot be manifested, or its healing and redemptive power be fully demonstrated.

The spiritual illumination which Christian Science throws upon the nature and office of angels not only opens, with new meaning, the Scriptural records of these celestial influences, but also brings comfort to Christian Scientists, by showing that all who in some measure understand divine Mind may realize the companionship and the protecting guidance of angels. No longer does one who understands the teachings of Christian Science superstitiously think of angels as semimaterial beings whose visitations are, possibly, more to be dreaded than desired.