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Law , the only true law, is the expression of the government of Principle. The Principle of the universe is God, of whom Jesus said that He is Spirit.

Those people who object to prohibition, qua prohibition, might stay, in their haste, to remember the morning when Sinai was hidden in a great smoke, as it were the smoke of a furnace, and the voice of Principle spake to the people, through the mouth of Moses, the words of the law, the "Thou shalt nots" of the Commandments. That was the old dispensation.

That "God is no respecter of persons" has been proved to me, and out of gratitude for the many blessings received through Christian Science I am bringing my tithe to the storehouse. As a child I had a natural abhorrence of the different phases of mortal mind as they were presented to me.

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.

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 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.

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.