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In the twenty-second chapter of Revelation we read, "Blessed are they that do his commandments, that they may have right to the tree of life, and may enter in through the gates into the city. " Each one must learn sometime that one's right to the tree of Life must be earned through right thinking and acting.

" Peace , peace be unto thee, and peace be to thine helpers; for thy God helpeth thee. " Who that has applied these glorious words of Amasai, chief of the captains, to his own deliverance from untruth can do otherwise than rejoice, as did David, in the companions sent to him? Though Truth is always at hand as our one and constant helper, leading us beside the still waters and in the paths of righteousness, yet it is only by degrees that this is understood, and so, as we make our stand against the threatening shows of evil, helper after helper seems to come to us, sometimes in one guise, and sometimes in another, but ever on the side of the son of Jesse, considered as the standard bearer of Principle.

History teaches us that there has at all times been an inclination amongst the holders of orthodox opinions to examine critically the views of those who have separated themselves from their communion. Unfortunately, this examination has usually been undertaken not in any desire for enlightenment, but purely for the purpose of repression.

A Noted writer tells the tale of two maiden sisters in Edinburgh who fell out on some point of controversial theology, but fell out so bitterly that never another word passed between them from that day onward. The pair inhabited a single room in which the doorway faced the kitchen grate.

America has just passed through a great war, one of the greatest trials that can come upon a nation. So far the outcome of its participation in this conflict has not brought the blessings of peace that were ardently hoped for and expected.

There are few, if any, who will deny the truth of the statement that there is an omnipotent and omnipresent power we call God, which is able to do all things at all times, and which is capable of meeting every need of humanity. The doubt has never been so much as to its existence as to its availability.

When God called Moses for the great mission of leading the Israelites out of their captivity in Egypt [their bondage to material beliefs], the suggestions of fear and doubt immediately came to tempt him: "And Moses said unto God, Who am I.

What is basic is a question of causation. The riddle of the ages is the supposition of material causation with its consequent material effects and laws—its Adam man, its rib woman, and the loss of harmonious being.

On page 238 of "Miscellaneous Writings" those wonderful lines written by Mrs. Eddy, if studied faithfully, must arrest our thought and cause a self-examination as to whether we have begun to perceive even dimly the true meaning of the word endurance.

The daily recurrence of human needs is a perplexing problem to the beginner in Christian Science, and past experience often leaves a doubt as to whether it is wise or safe to rely, for its solution, on the teaching of Jesus. This question is fundamental to the understanding of the relation of God and man, and if ignored will lead to confusion and fear in the thought of the student.