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IT is wholesome to inquire from time to time whether we are really studying Christian Science. On page 462 of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" Mrs.

THE only past we can, in reality, own is our preexistence as the children of God. That which claims to tell us we do not know man's primal, primeval spiritual state is the mist of supposition, the cloud of material ignorance, which has nothing to do with man, who is the expression of the divine knowing, even as Christian Science reveals.

IN his early experience in Christian Science the seeker after Truth may find it difficult to gain sufficient understanding to work out his problems. This difficulty is often caused by the effort to apprehend at once the law of God in its entirety, without taking the intermediate steps.

BY any one who takes a retrospective view of the world situation as regards peace during the past ten years, the conviction would no doubt be reached that there has not been accomplished everything that could be desired in the matter of bringing about universal harmony and brotherhood among men, or in the putting into practical experience of the teachings of the Golden Rule. In the Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy, we find on page 96 this statement: "This material world is even now becoming the arena for conflicting forces.

THE beginner in Christian Science, reveling in the new-found joy of physical healing or forgiven sin, may be surprised to learn that there is a cross to be borne uphill to the mount of vision. Apprehensively he may read in the Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy ( p.

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.