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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.

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.