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" O make me glad for every scalding tear, For hope deferred, ingratitude, disdain! Wait, and love more for every hate, and fear No ill,—since God is good, and loss is gain. " —Poems, by Mary Baker Eddy ( p.

Sacred Scripture, given us for reproof and instruction, is always urging upon the followers of God the necessity of fighting. we must "fight the good fight;" fight for the faith; fight the mental battle with the false evidences of evil; but we must see that the contest is not ours, that it is not a contest of personalities, but one between Truth and supposititious evil, which surely destroys all errors, futilely and helplessly arrayed against divine Principle.

When reading the accounts of Jesus' disciples crossing the Sea of Galilee, as recorded by Matthew and John, it requires but little imagination to picture vividly that struggle in the dark against the tempestuous wind and waves, and the joy which must have come with the happy ending of the experience. Few narratives that are so briefly told give such a complete story of the struggle of mortals and of ultimate victory over material sense; and perhaps none point the way for us more simply, or hold out greater promise of reward.

It is of vital importance to every one that he gain a clear understanding of man's immortal identity and relationship to his Maker. "Identity," writes Mrs.

The desire to attain greatness lies deep in the human heart; but of the way to attain it the world has generally been in ignorance. Believing greatness to be dependent upon wealth, position, or personal fame, mankind has striven for it through mistaken ways and means.

IN that great spiritual message, both practical and idealistic, called the Sermon on the Mount, Jesus expounded a great and far-reaching truth when he said, "The light of the body is the eye: if therefore thine eye be single, thy whole body shall be full of light. " Many of the profound truths taught by Jesus, by apostles and prophets, have lain through the centuries a veritable power house of strength and wisdom, yet apparently dormant and hidden from men because of their lack of spiritual discernment.

HEALTH is, in effect, the state of being hale and sound, or whole; especially, the state of being free from bodily disease or pain. Popular thought seeks to perpetuate this desirable condition; and in doing so, starts from the standpoint of matter as the origin and basis of existence, evolving from it many suppositional laws of health and systems of medication.

WHEN we depend upon divine law for the solution of a problem, there is not a question of whether it may or may not be solved. The solution is sure; but our ability to see this depends upon our faith in God and our willingness to lay aside human outlining and to accept the divine way.

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.