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After the Jew has accepted Christian Science, there arises in him a persistent, albeit unconscious, effort to identify its teachings with those of Judaism. He will educe for proof of this identification the fact that there have been and still are rabbis possessing the healing power.

" Jesus of Nazareth was the most scientific man that ever trod the globe" (Science and Health, p. 313 ), is the grateful and loving tribute of the most scientific woman who has graced this world's history.

In studying "the burden of the word of the Lord to Israel by Malachi," which runs through the four chapters under that prophet's name in the Bible, one will comprehend the momentous necessity of being constantly alert to the purity and frequency of one's tithes and offerings. Materialism had so grown among the Israelites that they could not apprehend the wisdom, power, and perfection of God, Spirit, and so were offering for sacrifice the torn, lame, and sick things of material belief.

The words, "Then a sort of vision came to my troubled sense, which seemed to waken me to the truth," appearing in a testimony of Christian Science healing published in the Sentinel, arrested the writer's attention and threw upon the screen of human thought the lights and shadows of a healing experience in which twenty years' bondage to the tobacco habit was broken instantaneously through a glimpse of the spiritual idea, the real man. Corporeal sense had thus far successfully eluded detection as the source of those mentally suggested arguments that smoking tobacco was quite inexpensive, a solace, a comfort, a good companion, and, "Oh, everybody smokes!" Seemingly health had not been impaired, nor had the habit proved objectionable to family or associates.

The statement contained in the Explanatory Note in the Quarterly, read at the Sunday services by the First Reader before beginning the Lesson-Sermon, that "the canonical writings, together with the word of our textbook, corroborating and explaining the Bible texts in their spiritual import and application to all ages, past, present, and future, constitute a sermon undivorced from truth, uncontaminated and unfettered by human hypotheses, and divinely authorized," should be a constant warning and inspiration to every student of Christian Science to guard against any suggestion of mortal mind that any line of thought having as its source some certain Bible text and claiming his special attention at the moment, should be dismissed for the reason that it probably refers only to conditions long since ceasing to exist, or to some far distant age about which he need not now concern himself. It proved to be such to one student, when the prophecy recorded in Isaiah, "I will break the Assyrian in my land, and upon my mountains tread him under foot: then shall his yoke depart from off them, and his burden depart from off their shoulders," presented itself over and over to her thought, with peculiar insistence.

The Christian Science organization, with its literature, church services, practice of healing, lectures, is meeting human needs, or rather, it is bringing the attention of humanity to the availability of divine help in every time of need. The human sense, which is entertained by mankind, is material, and it is found to have in the experience of an individual a transitory, not a substantial basis.

Christian Science reveals the grand fact that health is a divine activity, that it originates in divine Mind, and is governed by divine law. Mortals, ignorant of this fact and believing health to be a condition of matter, have sought out many inventions in the vain endeavor to restore by material means that which is essentially a mental condition.

That is what the husband of the Shunammite said long ago. —"It is neither new moon, nor sabbath.

Bells of joy, bells of liberty, bells of praise and of thanksgiving, bells of triumph and of victory, have rung out during the year now closing and have rung in a promised era of peace and progress, with a sound and a meaning for all Christendom unique in the history of mankind. They aroused glad response in every heart, a rapture of relief too deep to voice in human language.

When Jesus said, "Judge not according to the appearance, but judge righteous judgment. " he placed the critical faculty where it properly belongs—in the realm of spiritual perception or the divine wisdom.