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CENTURIES ago Job voiced the pathetic cry of millions in every age and clime, when he said, "Oh that I knew where I might find him [God]! that I might come even to his seat!" This patriarch knew there was a God, but knew not of His ever-presence. His statement, "I know that my redeemer liveth, and that he shall stand at the latter day upon the earth," showed clearly Job's trustful assurance of God's existence, and indicated that, when spiritual understanding should dawn upon him, he would recognize God's supremacy "in earth, as it is in heaven," and then he would realize God's healing power in the flesh.

EVERY earnest student of Christian Science desires to have more and more of the spirit of Christ, and to this end he bends his energies. He learns as he advances that spiritual growth is the result of a process whereby false beliefs are given up for the true ideas which constitute man,—that it is an awakening to a higher sense of real being, forever at-one with God.

It may be said that much A change was made to this article in the 2007 printing of Anthology of Classic Articles: "much of the trouble in the world" was changed to "all of the trouble in the world". of the trouble in the world comes from failure to handle animal magnetism.

IT is interesting to the student of the Bible to note how gently the Master led his disciples along the path of illumination into the realm of the spiritual, as well as to see how the good seed was continually being sown through his healing work. After all the disciples had been selected by him, it is related that "Jesus went about all Galilee, teaching in their synagogues, and preaching the gospel of the kingdom, and healing all manner of sickness and all manner of disease among the people.

Nothing is more interesting to new students of Christian Science, especially those who are attracted to it as a religion, than to learn what really constitutes a Christian Science church, and what are the requirements of a profitable member and worker therein. On page 583 of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" Mrs.

Mrs. Eddy writes in "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" (pp.

People , generally speaking, have looked upon "presence of mind" as a gift, recognizing it as instantaneous in action; and, moreover, it has been observed that those expressing it possess the wisdom for immediate decision and action that might not be evidenced so speedily if a process of human reasoning had to be pursued. The presence of Mind, as the words imply, in reality is ever present, ever available divine intelligence.

Perfection alone escapes the need of modification or correction. Man, the divine reflection, is not susceptible of alteration, deterioration, or change.

"Be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God. " So wrote Paul to the Romans.

"Loose him, and let him go. " These words spoke Jesus to those around him, and Lazarus, bound hand and foot with grave clothes, came forth from the grave.