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Isaiah, beholding the corruption of an ancient king and prophetically seeing his great and glorious kingdom made as Sodom and Gomorrah, exclaimed, "How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning!" The prophet is supposed to have based this metaphor on a Semitic myth that the morning star had fallen from heaven. Later, the poet Milton, seizing upon the same figure of speech, identified Lucifer with the rebel archangel, and, from that time on, this misconception has been very generally accepted.

" And let the beauty of the Lord our God be upon us: and establish thou the work of our hands upon us; yea, the work of our hands, establish thou it. " Mankind has more or less generally accepted a division of work into works, of Life into lives.

We frequently hear the old saying, "Knowledge is power. " Knowledge is power only when it is the right kind of knowledge and when it is wisely used, because a wise use of it demonstrates truth, the only true knowledge.

In dealing with any problem the real warrior in Christian Science starts with a close examination of thought to be sure that there is nothing there but absolute reliance upon God, divine Principle. He realizes, as Mrs.

The Lord's Prayer is the inspired teaching of Jesus the Christ, accepted by the Christian church throughout all ages. The Discoverer of Christian Science has given to her church the spiritual interpretation of the Lord's Prayer in "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," pages 16 and 17.

It must be clear to every Christian Scientist that God's work is finished, and that it is good. With this understanding as a premise the logical conclusion must follow that He never made a mistake, never punished nor allowed His children to go astray so that some day He might gather them together again.

History records that during the reign of Emperor Constantine, over three hundred years after the birth of Christ Jesus, the primitive Christian religion became very popular; so popular, in fact, that the emperor himself felt impelled for political reasons to forsake his chosen faith and become "a Christian. " Up to this time, so history records, the followers of Jesus, or the early Christians, had fulfilled the Master's prophetic words in John, "Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that believeth on me, the works that I do shall he do also; and greater works than these shall he do; because I go unto my Father.

Very often Christian Scientists are heard to say, "He needs all the mental support we can give him," or,"I feel so much mental support from her. " It is well, though, that all sincere students of Christian Science should be quite clear as to the metaphysical meaning of "support," and what its fulfillment demands of us.

The belief of limitation claims such a variety of presentation that to list these would be an endless and useless task, yet it may fairly be said that one of the chief ways in which limitation urges its claim of reality upon humanity is in the belief and fear of restricted finance. Lives there an individual who, being entirely satisfied with fabulous wealth, is willing to stop voluntarily the inpouring of riches into his own personal coffers? Is not mortal mind much more likely to pull down its barns and build greater, that it may bestow all its fruits and goods therein, thus putting its faith in material riches and forsaking Spirit? So slight is the understanding of what true substance is and of how it is to be obtained that the problem of income claims no small portion of the attention of mankind.

The curse of the world has been a false sense of responsibility. The human mind has burdened itself with the belief of being a cause, and with that has of course followed the necessity of producing effects.