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Mrs. Eddy, on page 520 of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," speaks of growth as "the eternal mandate of Mind.

The words that Jesus uttered to the rich young man, centuries ago, ring out to-day with meaning to those who have ears to hear: "One thing thou lackest: go thy way, sell whatsoever thou hast, and give to the poor, and thou shalt have treasure in heaven: and come, take up the cross, and follow me. " No doubt, the individual who lacks material wealth, such as, it is presumed, figured among the young man's possessions, will feel that the words spoken on this occasion do not apply especially to him; but, on a moment's reflection, one will become aware of the fact that houses and lands are a necessity, if the belief be accepted that matter is real and substantial.

Home is certainly the place where God should be known. How many times the student of Christian Science is called upon to prove this, is shown by the frequent questions asked as to how one can have more harmony in the home.

"For we know that the whole creation groaneth and travaileth in pain together until now. And not only they, but ourselves also, which have the firstfruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for the adoption, to wit, the redemption of our body.

When Christian Science is presented to us, and we faintly perceive its wondrous message of healing and regeneration, often we are led to think, with the first awakening that has come in the destruction of our ills or diseases through Truth's healing power, that now our work is accomplished, that we have scaled the heights, that we have reached the pinnacle. Having caught a glimpse of the vision of Truth's dawn, its joy has lifted us above earth's dull turmoil.

In the book of Daniel there is recorded one of the best loved of all the Old Testament narratives,—a narrative which inspired an artist to produce on canvas two powerful conceptions of that thrilling episode in the life of the man whom King Darius designated "servant of the living God.

The book of Ezekiel, in all the picturesqueness of its Oriental symbolism, is especially interesting to the earnest student of Christian Science at the present time. In it are graphically portrayed the seething turmoil of materialism and the majestic triumph of the spiritual idea.

THE Church of Christ, Scientist, is built, not on the personal Peters who may be included among its members, but on divine Truth, individually perceived. It is the recognition of the spiritual idea that enables one to declare, as Peter did, "Thou art the Christ.

THERE is always enough and to spare in the ever present now, since infinite Mind and all of its ideas exist now. Constant knowing is the natural function of divine Mind.

THE fourth and fifth chapters of the first book of Samuel present an interesting record of Israel's loss of the ark of the covenant and its return. Studied from the standpoint of human experience, this record illustrates graphically the disastrous results which attend the failure to hold fast to the understanding of the ever-presence of God.