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AT a certain stage in the writer's study of Christian Science there arose a keen desire to subscribe for The Christian Science Monitor. To satisfy this desire seemed rather difficult, owing to a sense of lack; but, having learned that a right desire is certain to be fulfilled, she knew that the way would open, and that she must be alert and willing to follow divine Love's leading.

MANY earnest Christian Scientists have experienced, while working out what seemed to human sense a long problem, moments of thought-weariness, when the limit of endurance appeared to have been reached, and the longed-for deliverance seemed to be as far away as ever. To one student came such an hour during a struggle with an apparently tenacious erroneous condition, when inspiration and spontaneity had fled and work seemed to be an increasingly heavy burden carried with lagging footsteps.

MARY BAKER EDDY has written in "Miscellaneous Writings" ( p. 276 ), "In Christian Science the midnight hour will always be the bridal hour, until 'no night is there.

WHEN Paul gave the Galatians his far-seeing advice, "If we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit," he called attention to the fact that, while many are quick to acknowledge that man is spiritual, they are not so quick to conform their lives to the truth; that while they are willing to declare God to be All and His universe to be the universe of good, while in their words they admit God to be the only cause and creator, still they are continually fearing, even expecting, some evil, some misfortune, to befall them. It seems impossible for them to grasp the fact that if God is the only cause, and infinitely good, the effect of this good and only cause must always be good.

IN order to awaken mortals to the facts of reality, of Spirit, the greatest Teacher of these facts the world has ever known, Christ Jesus, used many illustrations drawn from everyday human experiences. Some of his parables and similes were word pictures of great beauty, while others were more homely references, such as that of the mending of a worn garment with old rather than with new material, or the effect produced on a large quantity of meal by a small bit of yeast or leaven.

THE great longing of mankind is to experience freedom. All, in greater or less degree, think of themselves as bound.

ALL men, we learn in Christian Science, have a right to good in full measure. We also learn from this Science that here and now—in our everyday experience—a great measure of good is possible of attainment.

THE term "personal liberty" is much in the public thought in these days of widespread discussion over individual privileges and rights. It is often so misused, however, as to make it appear as an excusing shield, rather than as the dignified term for righteous individual freedom.

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.