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Undoubtedly the most satisfying experience which comes to the Christian Scientist is the realization of the inexhaustible and unfailing resource of each unfolding idea, or the revelation of divine Science. Every Christian Scientist has been privileged to experience almost times without number the sweet dawning of some spiritual idea or truth, and has come to recognize in these experiences the nature of the eternal Christ, the eternal activity of God's idea, that concerning which Jesus declared to the doubting Jews, "Before Abraham was, I am.

Although sages and philosophers have never succeeded in fathoming the mystery of being, the yearning heart of mankind still readies out in the hope that sometime and somehow the riddle of the universe will be solved. Agnosticism of this description is all the more astonishing on the part of Christendom, when we consider how conclusively the great Teacher disposed of the paradox of mortal existence nearly two thousand years ago.

As given in the book of Revelation, the messages to the seven churches of Asia are of deep significance to all Christian Scientists. Again and again do we read in them the words, "He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches.

Nearly every beginner in the study of Christian Science sooner or later reaches the place where he lets himself become disturbed over what somebody else is doing—or not doing. This "somebody else" is usually a student of Christian Science like himself, but one who in degree of understanding is so much farther advanced that the beginner in his youthful enthusiasm has come to regard him as an infallible example for every one to follow.

When the subject of Christian Science was first presented to the world a direct challenge was issued against the human theories and hypotheses then prevailing. There was no possible common ground whereon the critics of Christian Science could meet it and adjust their differences, except the ground of demonstration, and it was there that Mrs.

IT has been truly stated that all logic to be logical must have a basic or fundamental truth as its foundation. To reason correctly we must start free from error, for if the premise is faulty, our entire reasoning is without foundation in fact or structure.

TRUE inspiration may be conveyed by a symbol if one will but look beyond and see the divine idea typified. When this broader view of symbolism is adopted, and the spiritual vision is enlarged and cleared by the animus of truth, material objects visioned or conceived by mankind are taken as symbols of divine ideas in the spiritual or true creation.

IN the ordinary experiences of life individuals are sometimes called upon to make quick and prompt decisions on important matters. The tendency oftentimes is to defer action or to waver between conflicting opinions.

CHRIST JESUS' pronouncement, "Ye have the poor always with you," has sometimes occasioned confusion of thought on the part of Bible students, the inferred pessimism being so at variance with the hopefulness of the gospel of good tidings. There is needed, however, a sense of order to comprehend the relative value of wealth and the wider significance of poverty in their relation to eternal life.

JUST as all the terms used in Christian Science assume new meanings as our understanding unfolds, so does the word abundance take on spiritual significance as our thought ascends toward Truth. Has not many a student of Christian Science wondered why his constant prayers to lay of all his poverty went so long unanswered? And has he not discovered on the mount of revelation that the only poverty there is, is a lack of knowledge of God, and only abundance is abundance of spiritual riches? Thus if one who understood this great truth should find himself without food in a desert, as did the Master, he would pray no doubt for his daily bread, not for an instant asking that material loaves be laid at his feet, but rather that he might have the bread of Life, the spiritual understanding which reveals God's presence and proves that His power protects, preserves, and feeds His own ideas.