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Moses , as the embodiment of justice, is known to us all. His summary judgment upon the Egyptian taskmaster, the rebuking of his quarreling brethren, his effort to secure fair treatment for Jethro's daughters,—these incidents show him in the form of an avenging justice.

The world has heard much of victory within the past few years. For a while, in the dark days of the late war, when civilization itself seemed to be fighting with its "back to the wall," there was little talk of victory.

It is related in the gospel of John that a certain ruler of the Jews, Nicodemus by name, came to Jesus, evidently for instruction, and was told by him that "except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God;" and also, "that which is born of the flesh is flesh; and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit. " To Nicodemus, steeped in the learning of the times, these tremendous statements of the Master were incomprehensible at first, as indeed they were to the great mass of his own people; and, yet, a few faithful followers did catch the meaning of what the Master taught, and they in turn began to impart the Word to those willing to hear.

Every student of Christian Science accepts the impersonal nature of evil, and is taught to see evil for what it is,—nothing. It is equally true that wisdom and intelligence are also just as impersonal as evil, that, as Mrs.

The teaching of the nothingness of evil in Christian Science is sometimes puzzling to the uninitiated; and descriptions of evil and its seeming operations, if unaccompanied by the demonstration of its unreality, only tend to confuse the more. God is All-power; and evil, being the admitted opposite of God, must be powerless.

Heaven , it will be readily admitted on all sides, is of universal interest. Men always have believed in the existence of heaven; they have differed widely and variously in their concepts of it, but they have, each in his own fashion, looked up and looked forward to some vision of enduring rest, peace, pleasure, or bliss.

" We should strive to reach the Horeb height where God is revealed; and the corner-stone of all spiritual building is purity. " Mrs.

At the early age of twelve years the boy Jesus recognized that he must be about his Father's business. This indicated that his outlook on the world was different from those contemporaries who claimed to understand stand divine law.

How often our hearts fail us as we become mesmerized by the belief that some act in the past has been a mistake which can bind all our present and future, and keep us in bondage to its material results! We consent to submit to the material conditions which so hamper us, forgetting that in Christian Science we are given the power to cure wrong conditions. When God appeared to Moses, He did not tell him to help the children of Israel endure the hardships in Egypt.

There is no human heart but yearns to know of spiritual good. The plea of the woman of Samaria, "Sir, give me this water, that I thirst not, neither come hither to draw," has been heard down the centuries.