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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.

To "abide under the shadow of the Almighty," to feel and know God's power and presence, is to rid one's self of fear and worldliness. A glimpse of the omnipotence of God reveals man secure in the arms of divine Love.

In the parable of the talents Jesus likened the kingdom of heaven unto a man traveling into a far country, who, before he set out, called his three servants to him and delivered to them his goods. When he returned, two of the servants could show progress because of the intelligent use of that which their master had so lovingly provided for them; but the third, ignorantly or intentionally, had allowed himself to become the tool of evil.

When Mary Baker Eddy proclaimed to the world her discovery of the unreality of matter, she also revealed the all-power of spiritual activity and the utter powerlessness of so-called material action. Mankind has long accepted the belief that matter has life and reality, and that all action is the product of material energy and human will, and has, in consequence, remained enslaved by the so-called laws of material action and reaction.

" I Know that my redeemer liveth, and that he shall stand at the latter day upon the earth. " It was Job who uttered this strong cry of faith at a time when all the testimony of the senses seemed to be in direct opposition to the possibility that the claims of evil could be refuted.

When the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, Mary Baker Eddy, instituted the office of Committee on Publication, she aroused the admiration even of her enemies. No one could deny its effectiveness; for the correction of printed misstatements in an orderly manner soon proved to be a wholesome deterrent to the flippancies of yellow journalism, as well as a kindly instructor to the ignorant, but perchance well-meaning commentator.