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" NOTHING that lives ever dies, and vice versa . " In this statement in the textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" (p.

THROUGH the teachings of Christian Science we learn that God is infinite good, and that goodness is the expression of the infinite presence of God—Life, Truth, and Love; that God is Spirit; and that man is spiritual, created in God's image and likeness. This understanding, revealing man as the reflection of God, good, is as inherent in man's nature as is the harmonious unfolding of the bud into the full-blown rose.

THE human mind, so called, has as a rule admired certain traits— physical courage, boldness, personal ambition in competition, power in leadership. But the Bible lays stress, not on these physical characteristics, but on those which mortal mind is apt to call the passive virtues, which, for example, in Abraham were faith, faithfulness, and obedience; in Moses, meekness and spiritual understanding; in Daniel, purity and trust.

THERE is not a more important factor in experience than thought. Indeed, experience without thought would not be experience, for the very term implies thinking or being conscious of something.

AMONG the various healing activities of the Church of Christ, Scientist, one which stands out with unmistakable prominence, possibly because it is unique in the Christian churches of the world, is the giving of testimonies of healing of sin and sickness, either verbally at the Wednesday evening testimony meetings or in the official Christian Science periodicals. Careful observation of the published testimonies reveals that their origin, nature, and results have been subjected to a scrutiny which assures us that these brief but comprehensive statements are actual records of fact, and as such worthy of respectful attention and of credence, wiping out incredulity, replacing doubt with hope, and leading into the bright paths of health and healing.

IN Ecclesiastes we read, "Every man should eat and drink, and enjoy the good of all his labour, it is the gift of God. " How many times we have heard it said that an enjoyable situation, an unexpected gift, a long period of good health or remarkable success, seemed too good to be true! Such a statement has behind it a hint of superstition, an implication that good may be variable or reversed.

THE burden of proof, as the phrase is used in judicial procedure, signifies the duty which rests upon him who affirms, to prove the truth of his contention. This eminently just rule should, it would seem, have the same application to the practice of religion as it has to the observance of the laws of the land; for the Bible plainly tells us that "faith without works is dead.

CHRISTIAN SCIENCE comes to disheartened, tired humanity with its brow crowned with promise, bearing aloft the inextinguishable torch of spiritual understanding, by whose light may be interpreted the pitfalls of the past, and in whose radiance may be revealed the unsealed heights of the future. The truth of Christian Science is as a lens of powerful magnitude which can pierce the density of material sense and bring to light the otherwise undiscovered reality of existence.

TO beginners in the study of Christian Science a saying that keeps recurring is: "One is giving power to evil. " But if God is in reality omnipotent, the only power, how can one give power to evil? Is it not self-evident, some may however reason, that in these days of discord and disaster, evil does exert a terrible influence in the affairs of men? In the face of such material evidence, and regardless of its claims, Christian Scientists are learning the wisdom of relying absolutely upon the truth taught by Christ Jesus.

WE find in the textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy, the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, as well as in her other writings, many references to the illusions under which mortals labor, or to the illusory nature of the various forms under which so-called mortal mind attempts to simulate reality. We learn from the study of Science and Health that these illusions masquerade under many different names; that whatever they call themselves, whether beliefs in sickness, sin, lack, discord, or even death itself, they are all claims of the one evil or evil one, and that they will all be finally destroyed by Truth.