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There are many ready to agree with the poet who says:— To him who in the love of Nature holds Communion with her visible forms, she speaks A various language; various because in nature there is a wondrous symbolism of the countless ideas held in the all-inclusive Mind. Until awakened, however, to the unseen realities which the visible things symbolize and portray, how little we heed their deeper meanings and messages; yet close about us, all the time, God's voice is speaking to the listening ear.

In "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" ( p. 210 ) Mrs.

In commenting upon Job's words, "I have heard of thee by the hearing of the ear: but now mine eye seeth thee," Mrs. Eddy says in "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" ( p.

To the earnest student of Christian Science the word perfection comes to have a deeper, truer meaning when he learns its rightful use as a scientific term, applicable only to that which is real and eternal. This is made clear in the Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," especially on page 353 where Mrs.

" The whole armour of God," spoken of by Paul, may be defined as the protective, spiritual consciousness of the presence of God, manifested in goodness, health, holiness, harmony, beauty, and bounty; the understanding that inexhaustible Life is the center and circumference of all existence; that man and the universe are the reflection or intelligent idea of all that God is; that Truth governs all creation with absolute and harmonious power and might; that divine Love fills the world with glory and gladness, holding within its own unchanging loveliness everything that really exists. The armor of God may also be characterized as the conviction that evil of every name and nature did not have origin in the Principle of all being; therefore it never had intelligence, power, nor might.

Not uncommonly one hears a mother who has just begun the study of Christian Science speak in this wise: "I would gladly trust myself to Christian Science whatever might occur, but when it comes to my children—oh, that seems so different. " Now any individual is wholly justified in making a thorough investigation of anything which concerns the welfare of his children, and this is just where Christian Science triumphs, for when one has learned through this teaching to understand God as at once the all-powerful Father and the tender, loving Mother, it is realized that to divine Truth only may one safely trust the care of little children.

The length of the Sabbath varies in the Scripture records all the way from a day to eternity; in fact, any religious festival or holiday was termed by the Hebrews "a sabbath unto the Lord. " As a modern institution the Sabbath, or rest from labor, as the word implies, has lost through the centuries of materialism much of its original spiritual significance and in some countries is now regarded more as a secular festival than as a religious holy day.

The only way to arrive at a true definition of the essentials in religion is by gaining first of all the true idea of God as infinite Love. We can realize what is nonessential only by knowing the truth about God, for this knowledge includes the power to reject as nonessential all that is unlike Spirit, God.

Turning away from theology and its frequent concomitant, materia medica, years of faithful adherence to which have brought no practical benefit, many an honest seeker finds a stumblingblock in a misapprehension of the radical denials and affirmations necessary to mental work in Christian Science. "I cannot say my rheumatism is any better when it is not; much less that I have not any such thing when I know I have," declared one dear lady, who added, "Every time I make such statements my heart condemns me because I am telling an untruth.

Now and then the venturesome mountain climber in the upper heights of the Alps chances upon a row of small stones nearly the same in size and uniform in color, usually red or blue, extending across the body of a glacier and well up the bank at either side. These stones are set in place by some student of glaciology for use as a basal line, the better to enable him to measure the rate of movement, that is, the flow of the ice river.