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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.

THROUGH the revelation of Christian Science, in which all true causation is seen to be spiritual, the student is enabled to trace with genuine joy every step of human progress back to its impelling source in divine Mind and its manifestation in man. The question here naturally arises, In what terms is human progress to be defined ; in terms material or in terms spiritual? On page 181 of Miscellany Mrs.

Christian Science is stated from the standpoint of absolute Truth, the allness of God, and that there is in reality nothing else. But human belief declares that there is something else, and that mortals suffer sorely therefrom; therefore Christian Science, as applied to human need, is stated for the purpose of redeeming mortals from their wrong beliefs and experiences.

Among the many wonderful lessons given us in the Scriptures, none is of more vital interest to Christian Scientists than the earthly record of those who are described as having learned how to walk with God. The term "walked with God," used in the Bible in reference to Noah and Enoch, has been defined as "a prophetic life spent in immediate converse with the spiritual world.

One of the things which Jesus said concerning the erroneous conduct of the Pharisees was this: "They bind heavy burdens and grievous to be borne, and lay them on men's shoulders; but they themselves will not move them with one of their fingers. " No doubt many of us used to read this statement superficially and to think that what Jesus meant was that the Pharisees were not inclined to do anything for their fellow men, and that they did not try to live according to the precepts which they urged upon others.

The necessity for maintaining the purity of our Christian Science literature and preserving in its every phase the integrity of the movement, is becoming increasingly apparent to every sincere student of Mrs. Eddy's teachings.