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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.

SALVATION has rarely been regarded as a scientific process. On the contrary, during the last century, which claims to be the most scientific in history, the belief was at one time widespread that science had struck a death-blow at religion, and thus rendered the salvation of mankind largely problematical.

WHEN the Spirit, as a dove, had descended upon Jesus at Jordan, this spiritual experience was followed by the call for him to prove the efficacy of Spirit to overcome the flesh in its varying forms of appeal. Without this proof the vision would have been of no practical import to the world; nor would Jesus have become the Way-shower.

THE Christian Science Bible Lessons, which appear in the Christian Science Quarterly, were born of the wisdom and foresight of the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, Mary Baker Eddy. She was the first preacher, as well as the first pastor in the denomination.

OF all the many longings of the human heart there is, perhaps, none more pronounced than humanity's craving for peace. This has been especially noticeable during recent years.

THERE have always been advanced thinkers who have been looking forward with hopeful eyes to something better for mankind. This expectancy of something better has been a wonderful factor in sustaining the human race; and it shows the triumphant power of hope.

In the Scriptures we read of Jacob, who, in a strange place, in darkness and alone, yet had a vision of divine help, and later declared, "Surely the Lord is in this place; and I knew it not. " Thousands of years after Jacob's time, we read of that other who knelt alone in the darkness of Gethsemane, and amid the greater darkness of the world's hatred and misunderstanding.

On page 39 of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," Mrs. Eddy has drawn the attention of all who will heed to both the time and the way to gain freedom from all evil.