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There is an old apothegm to the effect that every man can be reached if one but know enough to take the right road. That this road is the only right way of approach goes without saying, and to discern and follow it evidences that wisdom in dealing with men without which one is sure to blunder to a degree that hazards success in his efforts to help them.

The human concept of greatness invariably attaches itself to personality. A man may be termed great because he has built up a great commercial enterprise, or it may be that the exigencies of war have afforded opportunities for him to display great powers of generalship, great courage, or great faithfulness, and he stands out conspicuously because of his achievements.

During the period of each of our terms of office as a Trustee of The Christian Science Publishing Society, we have striven to uphold what we believed to be Mrs. Eddy's design for the welfare and maintenance of the Society.

In "The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and Miscellany" by Mary Baker Eddy, we read on page 235 , "To teach the truth of life without using the word death, the suppositional opposite of life, were as impossible as to define truth and not name its opposite, error. " Further on in the same article she counsels, "The tender mother, guided by love, faithful to her instincts, and adhering to the imperative rules of Science, asks herself: Can I teach my child the correct numeration of numbers and never name a cipher? Knowing that she cannot do this in mathematics, she should know that it cannot be done in metaphysics, and so she should definitely name the error, uncover it, and teach truth scientifically.

" Every day makes its demands upon us for higher proofs rather than professions of Christian power. " writes Mrs.

It was because Mary Baker Eddy saw so clearly the need of demonstrating the sixth beatitude that she wrote in Science and Health p. 337 ) the following statement: "Christian Science demonstrates that none but the pure in heart can see God, as the gospel teaches.

Holidays , like birthdays, will continue in human experience so long as they appear actual in belief. Their relative importance will diminish in proportion to the understanding of their metaphysical significance.

The wanting and wishing of mortals are twins that go hand in hand, stirring up trouble and discontent wherever they go. The desire of immortal man is the direct opposite of the cravings of mankind, in that the immortal creation of God is complete and perfect, while mortality always lacks perfection.

One the most noticeable facts in the history of Christianity is the apparent struggle the great truth as taught by Jesus of Nazareth has always had to maintain its simplicity; or, to state the matter more correctly, the unremitting efforts the human mind has put forth, through, the centuries, to rob it of its simplicity and so to encumber it as to neutralize its effects, as far as possible, in human experience. The story of Christianity is to a large extent the story of this process, a binding and a breaking free and then a rebinding only to be followed by a still greater and a wider emancipation.

Metaphysics demands the unqualified surrender of sense testimony upon every occasion and under every circumstance because personal sense is the very acme of the belief of life in matter, of a knowledge of good and evil. The Christian metaphysician is guided by the dynamic power of Principle, the unswerving, unequivocal might of Mind which never stoops nor tarries to temporize with the human seeming.