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TO those who have tasted the first fruits of Christian Science in a joyous restoration to health and happiness, there remains the privilege of keeping these blessings intact. All erroneous beliefs are by no means destroyed at the first healing; and consecrated study and work are required for continued progress.

CHRIST JESUS displayed an unwavering confidence in his divine sonship, and he pronounced that relationship to be the direct and only source of his power over matter and matter's progeny—sin, disease, and death. When the Pharisees sought to discredit him, he said, "My record is true: for I know whence I came, and whither I go;" and this realization of man's spiritual origin gave Jesus dominion over material law and "over all the power of the enemy.

THE word "remembrance," like "fragrance," indicates somewhat the nature of its meaning, if one utters it caressingly. It associates naturally, in our thought, with all that is good, all that we wish to have linger in our lives.

RIGHT praying is the vitalizing and awakening power in Christianity. It aids and stimulates activity, and brings out the practicality of Christianity in everyday life.

IN the second epistle to Timothy, written by Paul from Rome, there is to be found much loving admonition and exhortation to his beloved friend to be constant in the faith. And not the least noteworthy of the instruction given by the great apostle and teacher at that time is the following: "Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.

CHRISTIAN SCIENCE teaches that good is real, eternal, infinite, omnipresent; and that evil, the supposititious opposite of good, is unreal and ephemeral, without form, locality, or substance. This knowledge is gained by lifting thought above the testimony of the so-called material senses, by contemplating spiritual existence, and by learning of God and the truths pertaining to God, as expounded in Christian Science.

THE Christian world acknowledges that Christ Jesus, the Way-shower, exercised a purely spiritual dominion over all the phases of evil which he encountered in the course of his ministry. His vision of God, good, and of man in God's likeness, was so clear and constant that he never yielded to fear; nor was he ever deceived by the evidence of the five physical senses.

THE Bible presents the truth about God and man and the growing perception of this truth by humanity. Along with the revelation of man as the image and likeness of God it contains the story of a supposititious material man, an Adam-man made out of dust; and Christian Science separates the truth about spiritual man, which runs like a vein of pure gold through the inspired writings, from human beliefs, which call man material.

FEW , if any, of our Leader's many weighty statements mean more to mankind than those found in the short paragraph under the marginal heading, "True life eternal," on page 246 of the Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures. " There Mrs.

STUDENTS of the Bible are familiar with the beautiful words uttered by Jesus the Christ, recorded in the nineteenth verse of the seventeenth chapter of John: "For their sakes I sanctify myself, that they also might be sanctified through the truth. " In this divinely inspired expression of the Love that is God, we find the keynote to the entire ministry of him who completely demonstrated his ability to subjugate matter and ascend to the native state portrayed by him in the fifth verse of the same chapter in these words: "O Father, glorify thou me with thine own self with the glory which I had with thee before the world was.