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IT is one of humanity's many paradoxes that while the quality of obedience is universally recognized as essential to moral, social, civil, political, and religious well-being, the practice of obedience is almost as commonly resisted, at one time or another, in some way or other, in individual experience. This is because the so-called human mind in its blind and perverse way desires the reward that flows from a spiritual quality, while it evades the application of that quality or attempts to make it operate in a way opposite to its real nature.

SPIRITUAL thoughts are the products of divine Mind. This one and only Mind is God, and the creations of Mind must have the qualities of their creator.

IN all lands and ages men have lifted their hearts with deep yearning toward God and have striven to express in concrete form that which would be an unceasing reminder to themselves and others that God does indeed dwell with men. In primitive times an altar built by a devout worshiper told the passer-by that some one had reached out with eager hands toward God, that he had found Him, and left a rude memorial to record this fact.

ON Saturday, January 28, 1922, Justice John C. Crosby of the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts appointed as Trustees of The Christian Science Publishing Society from the names presented by The Christian Science Board of Directors, Fred M.

The words of the Master, "Seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you," have for centuries been giving their message of hope to humanity. The message has been understood with varying degrees of success according to the spiritual understanding of the reader, but now Christian Science has come with its practical teaching to elucidate the real meaning of this saying to those who may have found it difficult to understand how this seeking after righteousness is followed by "all these things" being added unto them.

In the Preface to the textbook of Christian Science. "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy ( p vii ), we read: "The time for thinkers has come.

It becomes increasingly clear to the one whose perception is being quickened and instructed by the teachings of Christian Science that the unrest and disturbance that seem to prevail in the world to-day, in the physical, mental, moral, and political realms, are not conflicts between persons or nations, but simply the inevitable result of the workings of truth in the human consciousness. Mrs.

There is an inherent sense of justice with every one which is expressed in efforts for healing the sick, protecting the weak, raising the fallen, comforting them that mourn, and in the general desire and struggle for fairness of purpose and squareness of conduct. As the standard of Christ becomes better understood, the sense of justice is higher, more clarified, more transparent for Truth's intelligent shining, and more lovingly practical for helping humanity.

The poet who voices a sense of unity in his use of universal concepts, and manages, by dint of his art, to concentrate in a phrase what the philosopher requires a book to say, wins the laurels of human greatness. Tennyson includes all the elements of such a verdict in half a dozen lines, generally accepted as worthy of such praise:— Flower in the crannied wall, I pluck you out of the crannies.

It has been said that a man is what he knows. And it may be set down as an axiom that the Christian Scientist succeeds in proportion as he persists in knowing only Truth, and in refusing to know error.