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OUR Leader, Mrs. Eddy, writes in "Miscellaneous Writings" ( p.

THE parable of the talents supplies a concise summary of the teachings of Christ Jesus as to individual responsibility and achievement. Fulfillment is to be measured on the scale of opportunity; and the performance of each task will determine the greatness of the reward.

AFTER one has experienced the healing ministration of Christian Science, gratitude prompts the early desire to aid in the spreading of this gospel of salvation so that all mankind may share the blessings it bestows. The individual, having attended the church services and perhaps having observed the orderly functioning of the various church activities, has his attention attracted to these outward, visible manifestations as the starting point of church activity; whereas the fact is that these activities operate to the glory of the Most High, and minister to the needs of humanity only as it is apprehended that they have their source and their sustaining power in an understanding of God, good, and the mission of His Christ.

A STORY is told of a small boy who, becoming restless during church service, was admonished by his mother that an acquaintance was watching him, and was asked what he supposed this person would think of a boy who did not sit still in church. Giving the question a moment's consideration, the little fellow whispered his reply: "If he is thinking anything but good of me, he is not any better than I am.

THERE is no life, truth, intelligence, nor substance in matter. All is infinite Mind and its infinite manifestation, for God is All-in-all.

LAW in its Christianly scientific application is the invariable sequence and relation between divine Principle and idea. Because God, divine Love, is Principle, God creates man, according to His law, in His own image and likeness.

HUMANITY is longing continually for more of satisfaction and of happiness, more of sunshine and less of storm, more of justice and less of antagonism, more of love and less of criticism. Throughout the Scriptures this desire is proclaimed as legitimate.

PAUL made a very significant statement when he declared, in his second epistle to the Corinthians, that "the letter killeth, but the spirit giveth life. " The words quoted maybe applied to all the formalities of the Christian religion, the mere perfunctory following of which is of no more value than a formal compliance with the rites and ceremonies specified by Moses.

ONE of the most cruel taskmasters that would seek to enslave mankind is a mistaken belief of condemnation. It would bind mortals with heavy chains to an unhappy material past or a seemingly useless present, weighing them down with vain regret, disappointment, worry, and fear, until the one struggling with these errors seems to be in a state of confusion, "having no hope, and without God in the world.

FROM the very nature of his faith and of his general attitude towards life's problems, the Christian Scientist is necessarily optimistic. Just at present it seems he does not need any very great development of that particular mental quality in order to feel grateful satisfaction with the signs of progress within the all transforming movement with which he is identified, and with the changing attitude of the world, or at any rate of many of the leading thinkers of the world, towards it.