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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.

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.