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ONE wonders whether in these days the thoughts of men turn often enough in gratitude to God for all the good with which He is constantly blessing them. In Psalms a verse reads, "Thou openest thine hand, and satisfiest the desire of every living thing;" and in Proverbs we find, "The Lord will not suffer the soul of the righteous to famish.

CHRISTIAN SCIENCE teaches that God is the source of all good; and this spiritual fact awakens in Christian Scientists an enlightened appreciation of the blessings which enrich their lives. With the awakening to this fact comes a deep sense of gratitude, not only for the gifts of God's love during former days, but for the unlimited good continually unfolding as hearts are turned humbly toward the Most High for fuller understanding, and as human thought is resurrected from its materiality and becomes more spiritualized through the knowledge gained about God and man as revealed in Christian Science.

A SOLDIER said that the words most often in his thought during the trying experience in the trenches were the lines from Ephesians, "Take unto you the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand. " There are in civilian life many situations which present a parallel.

A HIGH sense of beauty has been expressed through the ages in what we call art. Through painting, sculpture, poetry, and music, men have presented their high aspirations.

A WELL-KNOWN poet and dramatist, speaking in public a while ago, made the interesting statement that to him the great hunger of the human heart was to be able to understand and interpret its own experiences. This is surely a true and profound observation, based on a sympathetic study of the real needs and desires of mankind.

FOR centuries men have evolved and proclaimed many varying theories regarding "the blood of Jesus," spoken of in Hebrews, and its efficacy in Christianity for the redemption of mankind from sin. While these theories vary in some details, there is one point on which many of them agree; namely, that the material blood of the human Jesus and its material effusion on Calvary were effective in God's plan for the salvation of the world.

THE human belief of a law called heredity is to day perhaps one of the most prolific sources of evil. This belief seems to be so established in human consciousness that one hardly knows how firmly it is believed in until there appears some afflictive experience, physical or moral, which has arisen because of it.

OUR Leader, Mary Baker Eddy, gave to a waiting world her discovery of the true interpretation of "time," which, in part, she declares in "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" (p. 595) to be "limits, in which are summed up all human acts, thoughts, beliefs, opinions, knowledge;" thus denning time in terms of the changeable nature of that which is human.

ONE seeking for a clearer understanding of divine Principle through the inspired pages of the Bible, as illuminated by the Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy, will be richly compensated by an analytical study of the life of Hezekiah, one of the greatest kings of Judah, and the outstanding events in his reign. It would appear that Isaiah exercised a predominating influence in the great crises of the period as these are recorded in the second book of Kings; and he reveals the source of the wisdom that characterized his counsel in this pregnant statement: "I will bring the blind by a way that they knew not; I will lead them in paths that they have not known.

The earnest reader of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy finds that the teaching on every page of this textbook of Christian Science tends to lift thought away from the seeming conditions cognized by the material senses, towards spiritual reality. The mental quality of hope implies the expectation of good, however much doubt and distrust may overshadow it.