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Exploring in depth what Christian Science is and how it heals.

THE PROBLEM OF SUPPLY

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.

"HE LEADETH ME"

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

"I RECORD ONLY THE SUNNY HOURS"

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.

COMPASSION

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.

COOPERATION

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.

GOD IS

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.

OBEDIENCE TO MORAL AND SPIRITUAL LAW

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.

UNKNOWING EVIL

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.

SACRIFICE

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.

REVELATION AND RECOGNITION

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.