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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.

THERE is no cause in God's creation for sacrifice. There is no impediment when we desire to give to our creator the reverence and obedience due unto Him; for near the close of the first chapter of Genesis, which contains no mention of sacrifice, is this pronouncement: "God saw every thing that he had made, and, behold, it was very good.

WHEN we think of God's revelation of Himself through man, we think of something so holy, so pure, that there is nothing with which it can be compared. Perhaps the illustration of the sun revealing itself through its shining rays is one of the best symbols we can have of it.

BECAUSE through observation and experience he had gained more of the wisdom which leads to greater spiritual discernment, the Preacher could write, "Lo, this only have I found, that God hath made man upright; but they have sought out many inventions. " To reach the conclusion that God made man "upright," because man reflects the divine Principle of uprightness, and that the upright are not dependent upon human inventions for their uprightness, is to be able to prove by the reversion and inversion of the human beliefs about man that no other conclusion is possible.

OF the attributes ascribed to Deity, omnipresence, omnipotence, and omniscience, though all three are infinite to the enlightened thought, omnipresence perhaps seems to be most dear to the human heart. This is easily explained when we see that a realization of the omnipresence of God would bring with it the realization of the omnipotence and omniscience that belong to Deity; also, that the understanding of God's omnipresence includes a very direct denial of reality or presence to matter, so that even a faint recognition of God's omnipresence sets aside material beliefs or laws.

THERE are probably few chapters in the Bible more pregnant with helpful meaning to the student of Christian Science than the eighth chapter of Romans; and it would be impossible to estimate the number of people to whom a right understanding of the wonderful statement of the Apostle Paul, "The law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death," has brought release from what appeared to be inveterate disease or sin. Every healing in Christian Science may be said to consist in the canceling of some phase of false, material, so-called law by that "law of the Spirit of life" which was exemplified in every act and word of the Master.