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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.

It should be plain to all reasonable thinkers that there cannot be two real but divergent creations, the one spiritual and harmonious, the other material and discordant; for Spirit and matter, harmony and discord, are opposites. In his second epistle to the Corinthians, Paul tells us that "the things which are seen are temporal; but the things which are not seen are eternal.

Every Christian Scientist is patiently and persistently endeavoring to prove the practical meaning of the word "translation. " Paul had a clear sense of the transforming power of Truth, for when writing to the Colossians he gave thanks to the Father, "who hath delivered us from the power of darkness, and hath translated us into the kingdom of his dear Son;" that is, delivered us from the darkness of materiality, with its doubts and fears and the seeming power of its illusions of sickness, sin, and death; in other words, awakened us to the right understanding of God.