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IN seeking to impart spiritual truth, Christ Jesus and his disciples, as well as the prophets of earlier times, drew frequent inspiration from their observations of nature. Seedtime, growth, fruitage, harvest—these and many others of like character are repeatedly employed as object lessons throughout the Scriptures, because of the simple analogy they present to the processes of spiritual growth and development.

IT is conceded that we live in a thought world. Pure and holy thoughts have their abode in quiet and safe resting places and beside still waters; the atmosphere of good is their plane of action and their home.

FROM earliest history men have offered sacrifices to their gods. The Old Testament traces most interestingly the evolution of the practice as developed by the Hebrew race.

ON page vii of the Preface to the textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," Mrs. Eddy writes, "The time for thinkers has come.

THE world has looked long and searchingly through the lens of material sense for deliverance from its self-imposed bondage to sin, sickness, and death. As one chimerical theory after another of some hoped-for universal panacea for the ills of mankind flashes upon the kaleidoscopic screen of mortal existence and is seen to disappear in the haze of a few short months or years, one recalls most vividly these words of our Leader, written in the Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" ( p.

PLAINTIVELY sang Milton, "Seasons return;" and a note of sadness, even a note of melancholy, runs through much of what is written and said of autumn, the harvest time of the year. Yet what a vision of beauty, what a riot of color, what an abundance of fruitage, what a glory of accomplishment the season brings! Why should that note of sadness creep like an undertone of dirge into the joyous song of the reapers? A dictionary speaks of autumn as "the third stage.

THE promise of divine protection and succor given in the ninety-first psalm reads, "He that dwelleth in the secret place of the most High shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty. " Among dictionary definitions of the term "dwell" is this: "Keep one's attention fixed; make one's abode.

THE earthly mission of Jesus was carried on among people steeped in materiality. He spoke of them as a "faithless and perverse generation," denounced their inability to discern the "signs of the times" even while visualizing the signs material, and told them of the wondrous works they might perform did they possess faith but as a grain of mustard seed.

THOSE who turn to Christian Science for healing after other methods have failed, usually vary greatly in their mental attitude toward this method of establishing good in human experience. Some expect to be healed immediately; others accept its ministrations merely because there is nothing else for them to do; while there are those who, though quite willing to try it, as they say, have little or no faith in its teachings.

MANY of the great leaders of Israel in their demonstration of Truth sometimes came so near to the Christ-idea that it might seem almost strange they did not attain completely to the standard of perfection. Each one of the great characters of the Bible manifested more particularly some predominant quality, or qualities, which rendered him distinctive.