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The first tenet of The Mother Church, The First Church of Christ, Scientist, as found on page 15 in the Church Manual by Mary Baker Eddy, the Discoverer and Founder of the world-wide movement of Christian Science, reads, "As adherents of Truth, we take the inspired Word of the Bible as our sufficient guide to eternal Life. " The result of the foregoing admonition of our Leader, to be found also on page 497 of our textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," is that students of Christian Science, as they gain in the understanding of this teaching, turn away more and more from material remedies or material assistance in case of need, whether it be physical, moral, financial or spiritual, and, instead, look to the contents of the Bible and its immeasurable treasures for comfort and deliverance.

Christian Science teaches that scientific healing is accomplished through a spiritually mental process. It insists that the habit of giving undue attention to the body must be reversed, and that one's endeavor must be directed instead to the correction of erroneous thoughts and beliefs.

EVERY individual who becomes interested in Christian Science has to deal with the problem of supply The rich, the poor, and those seemingly between these extremes have to gain a right understanding of this subject. The problem varies with each individual, for mortals differ from one another in many ways.

WHAT more comforting and encouraging promise than that in Isaiah, "I am the Lord thy God .

THE "Sundial" column in The Christian Science Monitor , with its familiar caption, "I Record only the Sunny Hours," is endearing itself to the hearts of many of its readers by revealing to them many sunlit pages of human life in unlooked-for places. Incidents of kindness to the aged, the forlorn, and other of earth's needy ones, stories of noble service in humble places, self-effacing heroism which asks no reward, spontaneous goodness which rejoices the heart, treasures of unselfishness from an almost forgotten past—long and beautiful grows the record, once mankind begins to turn from the conviction that all is dark and hopeless and begins to take account of the sunny hours.

IN the rush and turmoil of everyday life it would often appear that there is danger of forgetting the necessity of exercising the quality of compassion; and it might be well if from time to time we examined our thought to see whether this quality, with all it implies of tender, ministering love, is not being overlooked. Indeed, it is needful to remember the apostle's counsel to "covet earnestly the best gifts," of which compassion is surely one.

AT times when evidences of disunity and lack of cooperation are obtruding themselves upon the thought of many, it is profitable to turn one's attention from these negative and destructive conditions of thought to the contemplation of their opposites, the spiritual and constructive states of unity and cooperation. As one does this, concepts of adherence and stability are formed, which afterwards are given active expression in daily life.

THE fundamental basis of divine healing is the recognition of the fact that God is. It was undoubtedly the comprehension of this eternal verity that led to the discovery and founding of Christian Science by Mary Baker Eddy; and it is only by the realization of the omnipotence, omnipresence, and omniscience of God that the study and practice of this Science results in permanent healing.

OUR beloved Leader, Mary Baker Eddy, has lifted up the standard of true education for all the nations of the earth, and for all time, in the statement on page 62 of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures": "The entire education of children should be such as to form habits of obedience to the moral and spiritual law, with which the child can meet and master the belief in so-called physical laws, a belief which breeds disease. " But until one has begun to comprehend how much is included in obedience to moral and spiritual law, it may be thought that Mrs.

CHRISTIAN SCIENCE unfolds the all-presence of the eternal God, infinite good. Correlated with this is that other stupendous fact, that evil, good's opposite, is never present; that it has no origin or existence.