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CONSTANT expectancy implies a firm or steadfast waiting for something. Now the question as to what one is expecting determines, almost entirely, whether his human experiences are to be harmonious or discordant.

AMONG the questions that naturally arise when one reads the history of Daniel and his three friends are these: Why, with all the wisdom and spiritual understanding which these men possessed and were so well able to prove, were they found in a condition of captivity to a foreign power that had no sympathy whatever with their religious beliefs, but was decidedly heathen in its worship of idols? Why was it not possible for these men to exercise their spiritual insight and vision so that, instead of falling victims to the disaster that befell their nation as a whole, they might at least have saved themselves from the fate that befell those of less understanding? Or, again, why was it not possible that the understanding of these men should have saved the whole nation of Judah from captivity to an alien power? Surely they were possessed of a high degree of spiritual understanding when they could willingly submit their bodies to the lions or to the flames, and suffer no consequences such as would attach to a like course with human beings less spirituailly-minded. Could not absolute reliance upon their God, the one and only true God, have saved them from the necessity of passing through such tests of their faith and understanding? Could it not have shielded them from the shafts of malice and hatred, and have allowed them to dwell in safety in quiet habitations? Could not the wisdom vouchsafed to Daniel, which enabled him to tell the king his forgotten vision after all the Chaldean wise men had been sentenced to death because of their inability to answer the king's seemingly absurd demand—could not such wisdom have foreseen the disaster which was to befall Judah, and have warded it off? Many questions of this nature arise.

IN Christian Science, metaphysical healing stands for that divine order of spiritual law indicated by the healings recorded in the Bible, both before and after the Christian era began. The healing of the Shunammite woman's son, the recovering of Naaman "of his leprosy," the experience of the man lame from birth who was healed at the gate Beautiful, and of the father of Publius, governor of Melita, whom Paul healed "of a fever and of a bloody flux"—all alike prove the existence of a spiritual law that heals the sick.

CHRISTIAN SCIENCE teaches, and proves by demonstration, that the beneficent laws of Life, Truth, and Love are over all things. In perfect consonance with Scripture it maintains unequivocally that "God is love," and that, being infinitely good, God knows no evil, but governs man and the universe eternally by the invariable laws of divine Love, which, obeyed, result in harmony and friendship.

SINCE Mary Baker Eddy revealed to the world through her published works on Christian Science the actual relationship which has always existed between God and His creation, including man, there has been a wonderful awakening on the part of mankind to the truth of man's inalienable right to harmony. Reading the Bible in the new light which Christian Science throws on it, we find glorious glimpses of the love and compassion of our infinite Father-Mother God, and awaken to know a better world.

IN searching recently to get a clearer sense of minding one's own business and a larger, truer understanding of God as Love, great light and peace and courage came to the writer; and a desire to share the bounty prompts the telling. As thought was lifted to God, the one source, infinite and eternal, of right thinking, in honest prayer for growth in grace, for the graciousness to apprehend and comprehend good, the vital truth contained in Mrs.

HUMILITY is a word which has been so commonly misinterpreted by usage that a consideration of its true meaning is always helpful. Humility has too often been associated with weakness.

SURELY Ezekiel foresaw the coming of the practical, demonstrable Science of Truth when he said: "Son of man, what is that proverb that ye have in the land of Israel, saying, The days are prolonged, and every vision faileth? Tell them therefore, Thus saith the Lord God; I will make this proverb to cease, and they shall no more use it as a proverb in Israel; but say unto them, The days are at hand, and the effect of every vision. " Mrs.

IN our work as students and practitioners of Christian Science we are many times confronted with problems that seem so difficult to handle and so slow in yielding that we wonderingly ask ourselves whether our understanding of Truth is going to fail us. Many times before, our understanding has helped us to overcome belief in a power apart from God, whether the claim was one of sin or sickness, of lack or suffering in any form; but this particular case seems to baffle all our efforts.

IN the earlier chapters of Genesis our attention is attracted to Abram when he is told, "Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and from thy father's house, unto a land that I will shew thee. " In those days families lived together, perhaps occupying large areas and tending their flocks side by side.