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In the same way that the right thinker is the only true Christian, so a right state of thought constitutes the only true church membership. The true church is not something external to consciousness; it is the divine idea reflected in the human consciousness which is purified, regenerated, and active in fulfilling God's will in relation to all mankind.

A Speaker at a recent Wednesday evening meeting in a Christian Science church discussed his spiritual selfhood with the confident familiarity of more or less complete achievement. An inquirer who listened to the testimony remarked that, after all, the speaker had gone home on two material legs and in a material street car.

Every conquest of the belief of material selfhood means an advance in the direction of reality. The total elimination of all belief in a self apart from God will mark the consummation of the task which awaits each human being, and Christian Science assists this accomplishment with its light of revelation and exposition of the truth of being.

Individual spiritual man is the idea of divine Mind. On page 475 of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" Mrs.

All Christian Scientists, and many who are not Christian Scientists, find help and benefit beyond measure in the Wednesday evening meetings. The individual members of the congregation have opportunity during these meetings to testify to the healing power of Christian Science, and the success of the meetings is thereby dependent to a very large extent upon a proper participation on the part of the congregation.

True success is the attainment of spiritual understanding. To "bear witness unto the truth," so that this truth might be discerned and demonstrated by all mankind, was the mission of the divine Way-shower.

Service is a divine idea. It is an idea of that Mind which is the only source of the inspiration, love, humility, purity, fidelity, and constancy which characterize one who is the true minister to mankind.

The prisoner at the bar and the witness in the box are characters inseparable from history and fiction; nor is this the extent of their activities, for, as every one knows, a witness is not confined to a court room nor a prisoner to a dock. In the broader view many witnesses are constantly offering evidence in the daily round of individual experience, —captives and witnesses of physical sense, fear, sickness, and superstition, as well as glad messengers of freedom, joy, health, and life.

To the Christian Scientist whose daily study of the Bible in connection with his textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," impresses him ever more forcibly with the fact that the foundation, inspiration, and power of this healing truth is divine Love, it seems at once strange and unjust to hear the remark from one who is not a student of Christian Science, "Oh, yes, it does a great many wonderful things, but it makes people so cold and unsympathetic. " We have nearly all come face to face with this accusation at some time from friend, relative, or business associate.

When David was sent down to the battle field to take food to his brothers, he found two great armies drawn up in array for battle, the armies of the Philistines, who were a very idolatrous people, on the one side, and the Israelites on the other. The camp of the children of Israel was in a state of great commotion and fear.