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PICTURE to yourself a large company of soldiers on a long march at night through mountainous regions covered with dense forests. The trail which they are following leads upward, and is straight and narrow.

WRONG material conditions are indicative of wrong mental conditions. And these wrong mental conditions are obstructions which impede our progress, and which must be removed in order that we may continue our journey Spiritward.

WHAT a vast amount of woe the world would be saved were it to abide by Paul's admonition: "They measuring themselves by themselves, and comparing themselves among themselves, are not wise.

" AND God said, Let there be light: and there was light. " This earliest fiat of infinite Mind, the spiritual creator, never has been and never can be revoked.

THE healing power of ever present Love, which is being demonstrated in Christian Science, is attracting very many to investigate it. Those who are healed are in turn immediately desirous of helping others to be free from the bondage of sin, sickness, and depressing human cares.

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.