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A young woman stood looking out of an office window. Below her stretched the city, and beyond circled snow crowned mountains; but it was not at this view she was looking.

There is a belief among mortals that they can become the privileged possessors or owners of something. When through the usual process of law a man acquires property, he has a strong desire to erect a fence around it and to keep everybody else away.

IN our text-book we read, "The Christlike understanding of scientific being and divine healing includes a perfect Principle and idea,—perfect God and perfect man,—as the basis of thought and demonstration" (Science and Health, p. 259 ); and it is through this understanding that all Christian Science healing is done.

PRACTITIONERS meet with varied experiences while engaged in disseminating the gospel of healing through Mind. As the field of action broadens, new and seemingly strange problems come to light.

That Mrs. Eddy's great work, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," has unlocked long sealed pages of the Bible, every student of Christian Science knows from his study of the sacred Word.

OFTEN we are perplexed at the seeming persistence with which difficulties beset our path, and if we are not watchful and scientific in our thought discouragement may ensure. No doubt need assail us, however, and we should admit no sense of fear or self–condemnation, but should strengthen ourselves with these words of our Leader: "No good is, but the good God bestows" (Science and Health, p.

WHEN Elijah restored to life the widow's son, as recorded in the seventeenth chapter of I Kings, we are told that the first thing he did was to say to the mother, "Give me thy son. " In like manner when the metaphysical worker of today is called upon to heal a sick child, he begins by separating the child, in thought, from the belief of human parentage.

IN the prophecy of Obadiah we read: "Thus saith the Lord God concerning Edom; .

ONE afternoon some years ago, a Christian Science practitioner in answering her telephone heard a mother say, "Oh, do help my baby; he is so very ill!" Her voice was tremulous as she told about the baby's alarming symptoms, adding with deep distress, "His father is away, and I am all alone with him!" The practitioner began to declare the truth concerning God and man, but was conscious of a great divergence between the statements she was making and the sense of human sympathy and responsibility she was experiencing. Before long the message came that the baby was rapidly growing worse.

WE may well ask ourselves what we are living for. What is the thought that is most constantly uppermost with us? By what are we guided and governed? To whom or to what do we pay first allegiance? What is the nature of the ideas that present themselves in our quiet moments? Faithfulness in replying to such questions—and others that occur to every Christian Scientist—will determine where we stand as the exponents or demonstrators of that Science of Mind–healing which is the eternal truth now gradually encircling the globe.