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In the third chapter of The Acts of the Apostles is related the healing of an impotent man, who was brought daily to the temple "to ask alms of them that entered into the temple. " The desire to worship God would naturally awaken the sentiments which incite almsgiving, such as charity, compassion, and a sincere desire to help one whose condition seemed to call for pity.

The study of a recent Lesson-Sermon has impelled me to relate my experience, so similar to the healing of the nobleman's son, as recorded in the fourth chapter of John. My son was suffering with what materia medica diagnosed as fistula, and during the space of two years, at different times, had been under the treatment of three eminent physicians, yet "was nothing bettered, but rather grew worse.

Perhaps the first and greatest need of a Christian Scientist is for the realization of a true sense of universal love and its correlative expression, universal giving. This broad, impartial sense of love, always giving just for the joy of giving, the joy of expressing Principle, can only come to us as we begin to apprehend God as Love, and know that the real man in His likeness expresses only the true sense of loving.

If the question were asked, "What has been the most distinctive fact of human history?" great surprise would not be awakened if the answer were, "Its contradictions;" for they have been ever present and profound. More than this, they have always been attended by disharmony and distraction, disaster and death.

Like the disciples of old each seeker for light reaches a stage in his mental journey where he cries out: Lord, teach me how to pray. Our prayer is governed by our concept of God.

Jesus the Christ revealed spiritual healing as an essential part of the practice of Christianity and as a very important proof of man's right to freedom; for sin, sickness, and all other evils that he destroyed, are forms of bondage. He did not do another's work, but he led the way and placed upon his followers the responsibility of realizing their rights, and their ability to vindicate them through spiritual power.

When Jesus likened the kingdom of heaven unto the leaven, the grain of mustard seed, and the pearl of great price, he was using in each case the figure of speech which we call a simile. This is one of the very simplest methods by which the abstract can be paralleled with the concrete, the theoretical with the practical.

Confidence is a childlike quality. A child places implicit trust in its mother.

One of the seven synonymous terms used by Mrs. Eddy to bring the apprehension of God nearer to the heart of humanity is that of Principle, and all must agree that no other name could so adequately define the unchangeable, invariable, and eternal nature of Deity.

As we trace through the Scriptures the record of the spiritual man, from the first chapter of Genesis, where we are told he was created in the image and likeness of God we come later to where Paul tells us, "Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus. " Long before the Christian era a prophet had written, "The government shall be upon his shoulder," indicating that a new order in the world would come with the revelation of the Christ.