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Tenaciously throughout all ages, so far as we have record, humanity has clung to hope in life beyond the pale of mortal existence. Countless millions have professed a belief in life beyond the grave; but their ideas of what that life would be have been as antipodal as the poles, as divergent as their pursuits of happiness.

The door of demonstration is never bolted or barred. Earnest, active, awakened desire, alert self-abnegation, and spiritual understanding combine to bring into manifestation in human experience the power which is always sufficient to open the door and make the way of demonstration plain and clear.

It is historical fact that Mary Baker Eddy was the Discoverer of Christian Science and also that she is accepted and known as the Founder of the Christian Science movement. Objections have been made to her use of these terms; it has been preached from the pulpit and heralded from the press that a person cannot be the discoverer and also the founder of the same thing.

FROM Scriptural records we learn that the voice of God was heard by holy men of old. Noah, Abraham, Jacob, and many others enjoyed this close communion with divine Love.

WHEN , through the study of Christian Science, one gains some recognition of Life as God, eternal, unchanging, infinite—and the consequent nothingness, unreality, and falsity of the changing concepts of so-called mortal mind,—a song of gratitude wells up in the heart. This unfolding knowledge of the allness of God, divine Mind, robs one of nothing real, but rather does it begin to show forth the beauty of infinite good.

LOYALTY in Christian Science is strict adherence and obedience to divine Principle, God. One's degree of loyalty, then, is measured by his conformity of thought and action to Principle.

" WE do not speak the same language," has become a current phrase in explanation of incompatibility. This "same language" does not refer to a common knowledge of English, French, German, Chinese, or Choctaw, but to the same point of view or basis of understanding.

WHEN the problem of lack or limitation keeps recurring in our experience, it must signify that in some way we have not grasped the spiritual facts which are needed to heal this discord. We may have thought of our problem in a merely perfunctory way, dismissing it with a vague general statement of the allness of God.

POPE wrote, "The proper study of mankind is man," but until the presentation of Christian Science by Mrs. Eddy the larger part of the world's study of mankind had not been man; it had been merely mankind.

THAT humanity is ever vainly seeking for satisfaction is apparent to the most casual observer. Temporary happiness is not sufficient, for to be satisfied necessitates a sense of completeness that leaves nothing further to be desired; and the failure to reach this goal is a constant source of disappointment.