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Fear engenders weakness. It is a negative state, an element of the belief that there is life in matter.

The Jewish nation gave to the A world intact the idea of monotheism. In the face of divers temptations to follow after the many gods of the nations around them and despite frequent lapses from the Mosaic law, the Hebrew people nevertheless handed down to future generations the worship of one God.

Students of Christian Science have cause for great rejoicing in their deliverance from any belief in the legitimacy of evil. Luck, fate, chance, or other such superstitions, as well as the theological dogma of a God who causes or permits harm to befall His children, have no place in Christian Science.

The instinct to learn is as natural to a normal child as the desire for food. True knowledge is as essential to his proper development as pure food.

There has been so much talk about propaganda during the last few years, and so much believed to be true which has later proved to be false, that it is more than ever necessary for one to be able to discern between the false and the true and to know one's own thinking from subtle mental suggestions. An almost obsolete meaning of the word suggest is, "To seduce, to prompt, to tempt.

Before Jesus of Nazareth raised up Lazarus from the dead he expressed his at-one-ment with divine Principle in his familiar words: "Father, I thank thee that thou hast heard me. And I knew that thou hearest me always," and from this incident in our Master's experience there are clearly discernible gradations of progress as shown in the changed belief of the onlookers at the tomb, the faith and dawning understanding of Jesus' disciples, and the scientific understanding of the continuity and omnipotence of Love and Life that Jesus consciously reflected.

Because God is both infinite Mind and infinite Life, man in His image and likeness cannot help both living and knowing. This truth is ever forcing the human sense of things to rid itself of its ignorance— in reality of its very self.

" Animal Magnetism Unmasked" is the title of chapter V of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy. At the commencement of this chapter she tells us that "Mesmerism or animal magnetism was first brought into notice by Mesmer in Germany in 1775," and on page x of the Preface to the textbook we read, "The first edition of Science and Health was published in 1875.

No teaching of the inspired Word and no counsel of experience is more frequently repeated or more earnestly emphasized than this, that men acquire and exercise wisdom. It is made the specific theme of extended treatment and illustration in Job, Psalms, Proverbs, and the other so-called wisdom-literature.

There was a time when we believed that matter could make us sick; then, through seeing treatment in Christian Science change material conditions, we had to conclude that disease is mental. Occasionally, in this change of attitude toward disease the student of Christian Science tends to overestimate this mortal mind which seems to cause sickness.