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AMONG the helpful and cheering signs that have emerged slowly, but none the less surely, from recent chaotic world conditions, few are more gratifying than the increased interest in good reading. A quiet, but strong and deep undercurrent, that has been gathering impetus for years, has now reached an irresistible onward flow, which makes it definite and impressive.

" KEEP thy heart with all diligence; for out of it are the issues of life," we read in Proverbs. The right idea, which delivers from the beliefs of evil and limitation, appears in proportion to the individual desire to be right and to do right.

FALSE theology presents an erroneous dogma concerning God's self-sufficiency, teaching that God can find complete satisfaction in Himself, apart from man. According to the Adamic theory of creation, until some six thousand years ago God existed without man.

PERHAPS there is no term more commonly used, and misused, than "personality. " All Christian Scientists should be clear as to its meaning; and yet to many, especially the beginner in the study of this beautiful, simple religion, it seems often to be an occasion for stumbling.

THE title of Mrs. Eddy's book, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," has been a stumblingblock to those steeped in false theology, who have refused to interpret the Word of God except along the fixed lines laid down by ecclesiastical authorities.

MARY BAKER EDDY truly was standing on the mount, listening with the ears of spiritual understanding and seeing with the eyes of spiritual discernment, when was revealed to her that transcendent vision of Church which she has embodied in the definition to be found on of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures": page 583 "Church. The structure of Truth and Love; whatever rests upon and proceeds from divine Principle.

FEW words in the English language are fraught with as deep import as is the word "tolerance. " Coming from the Latin tolero, signifying "I bear," this word both implies and expresses a meaning which it were well for every individual to understand and apply, practically and consistently.

It is not generally understood, even by many adherents of the Christian religion, that it was the purpose of Jesus' mission to provide a remedy for all evil, for the evil of disease and suffering as well as the evil of sin. Few to-day believe that it is God's will for any man to be in bondage to sin; but there are many who think that sickness, and even death, are often the manifestation of the divine will.

THE materialist claims that the world of matter, the only world he recognizes, originates in the atom or the electron. No one has ever seen an atom or an electron, even with the most powerful microscope; and yet the materialist accepts one or the other as the basis upon which to build his universe.

" AND all things, whatsoever ye shall ask in prayer, believing, ye shall receive. " This declaration was made by Jesus, following his demonstration in connection with the fig tree, to impress upon his disciples the fact that the testimony of the physical senses, on which they placed so much reliance, was not to be trusted, and that material existence, considered substantial from the human viewpoint, was merely a sham.