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One begins the practice of Christian Science the moment he begins to apply it in his daily life. Whatever our occupation, our surroundings, our problems, our difficulties may be, each one is free to enter upon this work.

In "The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and Miscellany" ( p. 181 ), Mrs.

The world in general is beginning to see that there is no pleasure or satisfaction in idleness. It is realizing that fruitful activity is necessary to well-being and happiness.

It is quite a common thing to hear the remark made by those unenlightened by the spiritual illumination of Truth, as Christian Science reveals it, that the day of miracles is past. It is popularly considered that the healing of the sick by purely spiritual means is entirely supernatural, the result of the suspension, or in direct violation, of divine law, the infringement of which Christ Jesus was enabled to compass for the purpose of proving his Messiahship.

In "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" our Leader writes ( p. 426 ): "The discoverer of Christian Science finds the path less difficult when she has the high goal always before her thoughts, than when she counts her footsteps in endeavoring to reach it.

There is something pathetic in the Scriptural account of our Savior's brief interview with Nicodemus, who, under cover of night, sought counsel of him who spake "as one having authority, and not as the scribes. " So gentle and persuasive were Jesus' words that this "master of Israel" knew he could listen to them with profit.

Throughout the Christian centuries and up to the present time, many have looked for the reappearing of Christ Jesus on the plane of human consciousness; and this has sometimes been spoken of as the second coming. Even little children who have heard this thought advanced, have often longed for the healing presence of the Christ, of which we are told in the gospels; but seldom, if ever, have they received much encouragement from their inquiries in this direction; and so, with most of their elders, they came to look for deliverance from the woes of mortal experience in another world.

Carlyle says somewhere that if we look deep enough we shall always find harmony. That is what Christian Science is doing: it is teaching us to look deep enough.

The demands of spiritualized thought and activity, and the need of breasting the tumult for the sake of the joy that is set before us, have revealed a strength in which former fatigues have been forgotten, and have, furthermore, banished as treasonable the once alluring and self-justifying argument of holiday rest. The expediences of travel for pleasure-seeking or bodily isolation in the past have too often utterly failed to stimulate the monotony or loosen the tension of human thought, as is proved by the fact that they have not always made men kindlier, more tolerant and generous, more grateful for the opportunity of ceaseless service.

The faith and fidelity of Abram was beautifully shown in his appeal to Lot, when the desire for material place and property threatened to destroy the loving relationship that had existed between them. The increasing herds of the two men made the fields of Canaan inadequate, and "there was a strife between the herdmen of Abram's cattle and the herdmen of Lot's cattle.