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IN "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" ( p. 88 ) Mrs.

EVEN the casual reader must observe that the Scriptures comprise a continuous record of the lives of those who have escaped some form of evil. Noah passing unharmed through the flood, Daniel escaping injury in the lions' den, the three Hebrews suffering no ill as the result of being cast into a fiery furnace, are all familiar instances of the escape of individuals; while the children of Israel led out by Moses from their execrable bondage to the Egyptians, and later in their history, when tormented by the Midianites, led by Gideon, victorious over these enemies, are well-known examples of national escape from harm.

THE harmony or inharmony of our lives depends upon our view of every circumstance, condition, person, or thing which comes within the circle of our experience. We cannot control people or events; but we can so learn to know God, good, as to be undisturbed by either.

An inspiring insight about the Bible Story of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego.

When one becomes interested in Christian Science it is not long before he learns to turn to God in trouble of any sort, and every experience proves that "God is our refuge and strength. " Should fear knock loudly at our hearts, instantly we can deny that God ever created anything of which man could be afraid, because of the comforting words found in our textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" ( p.

In that wonderful farewell to his disciples, Christ Jesus promised to send them the Comforter; and in "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" ( p. 55 ) Mrs.

One of the most difficult rules in Christian Science for an enthusiastic beginner to conform to wholeheartedly is that prohibiting the application of treatment, uninvited, to another's problem. As he advances, however, he recognizes the justice of this rule, which is simply adherence to the Golden Rule, and the application of it to human relationships; he learns how to discriminate between the mental effort to bar error from his own consciousness when confronted by the manifestation of its claim in another, and the undesired, uninvited, and therefore discourteous invasion of another's mentality.

Almost every one in the course of the search for Truth has at some time experienced a feeling of disappointment. At first all went well, faith appeared so easy, the healing came so quickly, the path seemed one of flowers, and there was a feeling of light where before all had been darkness and confusion.

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.