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THERE is no doubt that most of us come to Christian Science seeking something we feel we have lost,—wealth, health, happiness, our faith in God or in man, or all of these together. Feeling keenly the loss of our prized possessions, we have usually sought frantically to regain them by searching in every direction save the right one, until our weary footsteps have finally been directed to Christian Science.

" AND he had in his hand a little book open," John writes in Revelation; and farther on John states that the little book "shall make thy belly bitter, but it shall be in thy mouth sweet as honey. " In the little book, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" ( p.

ONE of the last lessons which Christ Jesus taught his disciples was the real significance of the widow's mite. The occasion was just after his triumphal entry into Jerusalem and previous to his trial before Pilate.

NOTHING better illustrates the vacillating tendencies of human nature than its readiness to make good resolutions and its pitiable failure to keep them. One of the reasons for this lack of stability is the disposition on the part of the individual to congratulate himself upon his high purpose, oftentimes to the extent of shouting it from the housetops, instead of quietly availing himself of the means which God places at his disposal for making the purpose an accomplished fact.

In their more exact definitions, confidence and strength have each their own peculiar meaning, their separate scope and significance. Yet the two are so closely related in common experience that to speak of confidence at once calls up a mental picture of strength; and strength implies in most cases a corresponding degree of confidence.

A young man was brought before a judge in a court in a small western town. Asked why none of his family had come to help him, he replied that he had not notified them.

It did not seem like flower time. Within the fragrant dusk of the pine woods we walked softly over thick layers of pine needles.

In the gospel of Matthew it is recorded that "Jesus called a little child unto him, and set him in the midst of them, and said, Verily I say unto you, Except ye be converted, and become as little children, ye shall not enter into the kingdom of heaven. " One of the most outstanding qualities of the child is teachableness; and this quality of thought must always be gained by one before truth can be accepted.

I Would seek unto God, and unto God would I commit my cause. " These are the opening words with which Job recounts the goodness of God, closing the recital with the consequent of that goodness: "That those which mourn may be exalted to safety.

Through the study of Christian Science the thoughts of men are directed into new spiritual channels. The conscientious student finds that a study of this Science clarifies his thinking, increasing harmony thereby in his surroundings.