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STUDYING the Bible, from Genesis to Revelation, we find recorded the words and deeds of many people who, to a greater or less extent, proved themselves to be God's witnesses. But the greatest witness of all was Christ Jesus; and students of Christian Science may well consider the statement which he made to Pilate, as found in the gospel according to John: "To this end was I born, and for this cause came I into the world, that I should bear witness unto the truth.

A MISTAKEN idea of what constitutes Christian Science demonstration often causes the student to entertain doubt, discouragement, and a sense of failure or confusion. Many times we find that we have been led to believe that if we do not have an instantaneous healing of sickness, lack, or inharmony, we have failed in our work.

THE beginner's first concept of the practical potentiality of Christian Science follows from his acceptance of the proposition that sin, sickness, and death are the results of fearful, sinful, and ignorant thinking. As a consequence, he begins to watch his thoughts, and to bring them into subjection to the Mind of Christ, as his reading of the textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy, with its interpretation of the Bible, shows him how to do.

CHRIST JESUS , when struggling with the burden of the world's woe in the garden of Gethsemane, told his disciples, who were soon to desert him, that after he was risen again he would go before them into Galilee. When the two Marys went to the sepulcher, the angel said to them, "Go quickly, and tell his disciples that he is risen from the dead; and, behold, he goeth before you into Galilee; there shall ye see him.

When the student of Christian Science apprehends the mental and spiritual nature of health,—the consciousness of spiritual wholeness,—he perceives the impossibility of true healing by any other means than the divinely metaphysical method employed by Jesus the Christ, and operative to-day in Christian Science. And because every form of human distress is relieved, the seeming predisposing cause of all wrong conditions being removed through Christian Science healing, the student of this Science finds that the term "healing" has a far more comprehensive meaning than the common usage of the word implies.

The most vital thing in the world to-day is healing, as practiced by the Founder of Christianity, Christ Jesus. This healing is made possible to the present age through the revelation of Christian Science, given by Mary Baker Eddy in "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," which is the textbook of Christian Science.

One of the most striking passages in the New Testament is that which tells of the Apostle Paul standing in the midst of Mars' Hill and speaking to the assembled Athenians as follows: "Ye men of Athens, I perceive that in all things ye are too superstitious. For as I passed by, and beheld your devotions, I found an altar with this inscription, TO THE UNKNOWN GOD.

In the sixteenth chapter of the gospel of Matthew we read these plain, significant words by Jesus: "If any man will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me. " This command is imperative to-day to all who are seeking the way to eternal Life; and in Christian Science we are beginning to learn how, in some measure at least, to be obedient to the Master's commands.

Many, like Jacob of yore, when ready to renounce the exile of sin, think their decision to return to the Father's house sufficient to bring them immediately into the full realization of the heaven-harmony promised in Christian Science. They find it hard, at first, to understand conditions that arise, sometimes, apparently the very opposite of right realization.

In Mrs. Eddy's Message to The Mother Church for 1901 ( p.