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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.

" KNOW thyself," that ancient precept described by an English poet as "the heaven-sprung message of the olden time," seems to acquire a new intensity of wisdom in the light of Christian Science. The householder of Jesus' parable brings forth things new and old; and because the old is side by side with the new, both are enriched by this juxtaposition.

IN the seventh chapter of Exodus we read, "And Moses was four-score years old, and Aaron fourscore and three years old, when they spake unto pharaoh. " Eighty years old, and just beginning his life work! For it was after this that the signs and wonders were shown in Egypt, after this that the journey into Canaan was begun.

EVEN in these days of vivid happenings, the story of the little party of marooned antarctic explorers is one that brings a thrill to the heart and tears to the eyes, while the account of their rescue outfictions the most imaginative tales of modern writers. For months these men were to mortal sense existing on a narrow ledge of ice, scarcely able to move, and with hardly enough food to sustain life; but one man among them, the second in command, never gave up hope.

It was easy enough to grow trees,—anybody could do that; but to raise lemons, and lemons that would keep,—that was a different proposition. " The place was southern California; the speaker, a man who had spent many years in the development of a large fruit ranch, and whose achievements in this line had given a wide reputation to the fruit bearing his label.

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PURE Christianity's teaching is that God is Spirit; His kingdom a mental abode in the affections of man; His reign a glorious and everlasting one; that the signs or fruits of the kingdom are found in the exercise of divine qualities, such as spiritual activity, goodness, righteousness, truthfulness, love; and that the citizens of the kingdom are men and women under the control of supreme wisdom, reflecting God's power in intelligent and loving dominion over God's lesser ideas. Even while he tarried among men St.

No student of current religious life and happenings can have failed to note the tendency of its propaganda, as a whole, toward educational methods. The appeal to the emotions, and especially to fear, which has characterized most evangelical efforts, has largely given place to the appeal to intelligence.