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MANY people who have just come into Christian Science, and even some who have known of it for years, have problems from which they desire to be delivered. Many times their hearts are heavy with fear, bitterness, and depression.

THOSE who investigate the teachings of Christian Science soon learn to accept, as a basis for all right reasoning, the perfection of God and of man in God's likeness. The revelation of this truth is like a foretaste of heaven to the one who receives it; for he gains a glimpse of his true identity as God's child, untouched by the bondage and the sorrows of material beliefs.

OUR understanding of supply, either as a church or as individuals, is in direct ratio to our understanding of God, who is infinite good, infinite intelligence, infinite substance. Jesus said, "This is life eternal, that they might know thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent.

THE world to-day talks much of "inferiority complexes. " For each one who is weary of his own material wilderness there is great comfort in Mrs.

TO every person there must come the sacred time of turning forever from sense to Soul. The claims of the material senses may still seem to assert themselves, but in his heart each will come to know that Spirit is his all, forever.

AS commonly understood, opportunity signifies a combination of favorable conditions resulting in a suitable occasion. It implies the existence and activity of a power capable of controlling and producing a situation deemed favorable.

ONE of the many helpful and necessary steps in the experience of the Christian Scientist is met with when he has done all that is seemingly possible in the overcoming of a discordant condition, and is awaiting results. If he has worked conscientiously, and with true humility, the time of waiting need not be either tedious or cheerless, but may be a happy and joyous period.

FROM the end of the earth will I cry unto thee, when my heart is overwhelmed: lead me to the rock that is higher than I. " The sixty-first psalm contains this call for help; but it conveys far more than a blind turning to an unknown, far-away God, with the vague hope that the prayer may possibly be answered; for it manifests the confident assurance of one passing through deep waters that the loving, listening ear of our Father-Mother God is ever present, and that resting in His strength and guidance can lift one out of what may seem to be overwhelming trouble.

THE great human necessity for correct reasoning has been recognized by the intelligent in every age, and much has been done through various systems of logic to meet this need. The counsels and admonitions of prophet and savant alike have ever been directed to the leading of thought into better habits of reasoning, wherein logic becomes the reliable servant of men; for sound logic causes men to leaven their meditation and conversation with wisdom, and to avoid dwelling upon unsupported theories and dogma as authority.

TO a large percentage of those entering upon the study of Christian Science, there appears, a great deal to be done by way of correcting wrong conditions in home, business, and social relations; for there certainly is much that is discordant and grievous in the human experience of many individuals. It is therefore with great joy that the young student learns, perhaps for the first time, or with new meaning, that God is Love and His purpose for mankind wholly beneficent.