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The writer stood one day at a street corner in a strange city, waiting for a certain street car. A number of cars passed but the particular car desired did not come.

With the dignity of a sublime humility our Master trod his lonely way amid life's tumultuous throng. The grandeur of his words and works, because unheralded by pomp and display, frequently fell upon sensibilities seared and dulled by the blighting touch of sin and sorrow.

In discussing some special articles that were to be written in connection with war activities, the editor of a large metropolitan daily specified that the articles must have some local interest or application, that they must in some way be "hitched up" to the city and its life, or they would not appeal to readers. His orders were of course obeyed, but the thought came, "Is not this provincial?" Is it not narrowing and limiting the thought of readers to give them nothing outside their present interests, to keep them bound, as it were, within the confines of their immediate likes and dislikes? Is such a thought-restriction on a community good, and in reality is it what the people would really demand if they were awake to and insistent upon their needs? They accept it now under the mesmerism that makes them believe they desire nothing outside themselves.

The truth about God and man is eternal; it has neither beginning nor ending; but it must be revealed to human consciousness. Humanity must rise above the evidence of the material senses to perceive the spiritual idea.

In the Preface to her book "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" ( p. vii ) Mrs.

Truly sublime in its significance and simplicity is the designation, "I AM THAT I AM," which Moses was instructed to state to the children of Israel as the name of the one infinite God. Every phase of human limitation or bondage is traceable to the notion that the I, or I Am, of existence is finite.

In the twenty-third chapter of Jeremiah we find the following wonderful statement of truth: "Behold, the days come, saith the Lord, that I will raise unto David a righteous Branch, and a King shall reign and prosper, and shall execute judgment and justice in the earth. In his days Judah shall be saved, and Israel shall dwell safely: and this is his name whereby he shall be called, The Lord Our Righteousness.

Just as the corner stone of any building is that stone which lying at the corner of two walls unites those walls at the foundation, so the Christ, as understood in Christian Science, shows man to be united to his fellow man on the basis of one Principle, God. Just as to build a superstructure without regard to the corner stone or foundation is to sacrifice the strength and beauty of an edifice, so, according to Christian Science, to live without regard to this fundamental spiritual law is to sacrifice the harmony and peace of existence.

An understanding faith is a listening quality of thought. It is that through which angels whisper.

The paramount test of true Scriptural interpretation is the conscious ability to heal the sick. If one has no practical understanding of the healing power of divine Love, however learned or sincere he may be, he must fail to interpret the Scriptures in their Christianly scientific meaning.