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Throughout all the ages the world has been growing more and more spiritual; unconsciously it has been molded by a leavening power which proves that God works whether men will it or not. In this period thought has burst forth, like Aaron's rod, into blossom,—the expression of the spiritual idea of God,—and Mrs.

Who of mature years, after buffeting with the world and its disappointments, finding more of failure than success, more of sorrow than joy, had not longed for some sure refuge from the intrusion of material discords? All about us is seen the result of these discords. Sin, sickness, and death furnish evidence of material decay, reminding mortals of an untimely end.

It would sometimes seem as though our individual relation to the Wednesday evening meeting was not fully appreciated by all. Even in a large church, where every moment should be crowded by expressions of gratitude, strange lapses have sometimes left a wondering inquiry in the mind of the visitor.

On page 427 of Science and Health Mrs. Eddy says, "Immortal Mind, governing all, must be acknowledged as supreme in the physical realm, so-called, as well as in the spiritual.

Christian Science is bringing the human mind to see that it cannot correctly conceive of God as apart from the universe which reflects Him. Whatever God is, is reflected in His creation.

The gospel of the kingdom is the best news the world ever received, and for this reason Jesus the Christ proclaimed it, lived it, demonstrated it. From the altitude of his undimmed spiritual vision he discerned the kingdom as God's perfect creation,—a manifestation of Mind, in which the crowning glory is loving submission to the divine will, in response to the perpetual outgoing of Love's choicest blessings.

Grouped around the central figure of Christianity, Jesus the Christ, and inseparably associated with his life work, being closely identified with the most intense experiences of his career, stand a company of disciples or students whose records, as given by the evangelists, command attention. To them the great Teacher gave personal instruction in divine law; in their presence he demonstrated its sacred power; upon them he placed the solemn responsibility of extending and perpetuating the healing knowledge of that law.

If one does not recognize and in some degree understand the relation of cause and effect, he cannot reasonably expect to succeed in any undertaking. Nothing comes by chance.

When one considers for how many centuries the vast resources of the American continent were hidden from the civilized nations of the earth, and how long the useful energies of steam and electricity were imprisoned in undiscovered realms of thought, a feeling of awe arises to think what power, what wealth must still lie out of sight, waiting through countless ages for some gifted eye to pierce the mask of ignorance and see beyond. The diamond waits in the dark of the earth, the pearl in the depth of the sea, until some one, braver than most, shall find them hidden there.

In that strangely beautiful story of the father and two sons narrated in the fifteenth chapter of Luke's gospel and commonly referred to as the parable of the prodigal son, interest centers almost exclusively about the profligate, the dutiful son all but escaping attention. This is not surprising, for the evenness of the ways of the obedient son presents few striking incidents for portrayal, while the life of the prodigal embodies those sharp experiences with which human existence abounds and which lend themselves so spontaneously to the thought or pen of him who would "point a moral, or adorn a tale.