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IN what is known as the "Magna Charta of Christian Science," Mrs. Eddy says that "the church is the mouthpiece of Christian Science," and that it stands for "equal rights and privileges, equality of the sexes, rotation in office" ( The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and Miscellany, p.

AMONG the problems which confront the Christian Scientist, one that seems most difficult is that of loving his neighbor as himself. He learns that his "neighbor" means every fellow man and woman; yet so many of the people whom he meets appear to him disagreeable and even repellent, that it seems impossible to love them all in the commonly accepted sense of loving.

IN view of the interest now being aroused in the coming celebration of the three hundredth anniversary of the landing of the Pilgrim fathers on Plymouth Rock, it is well worth while for Bible students to trace the history of the pilgrims of ancient days and to note how each footstep of freedom paved the way for a larger, more practical vision of the ever-present Christ. If it be true that "the blood of the martyrs is the seed of the church," then it is not too much to say that the faith of the pilgrims is the rock of national life.

ENDURING qualities are found only in the divine Mind, the Mind of Christ; and in Christian Science we learn about the spiritual understanding of divine Mind and the constructive power that goes with it. Our Leader tells us that "this divine Principle of all expresses Science and art throughout His creation, and the immortality of man and the universe" ( Science and Health, p.

SOMETIMES in the experience of the Christian Scientist the words of the Master to his disciples, "Come ye yourselves apart into a desert place, and rest a while," seem to be an insistent appeal to the student, a call to depart from the material sense of things for closer communion with divine Truth and Love. A response to this call is sure to bring a clearer understanding of God and of man's unity with Him, which so refreshes and invigorates thought that one is enabled to go forth with renewed energy because of a more spiritual view.

ONE of the great needs of the hour, if not the greatest need, so the modern pulpit has found, is a rediscovery of God. It is not necessary to comment on this remarkable admission, except to intimate that the need is rather for a better understanding of God, a more spiritual conception of Him as divine Principle, -and a more demonstrable faith in His healing and redemptive power.

WHATEVER may have been the individual outlook upon life, whether its constantly changing questions were faced with fine though oftentimes futile courage, or whether its issues were evaded with cynical disparagement of virtues, it is certain that until the advent of Christian Science no one had ventured to regard the problems of life as being capable of a solution as scientific and certain as a mathematician's or an astronomer's computation. Christian Science supplies this new and interest-begetting viewpoint by showing that every problem, every difficulty, every decision, may be fearlessly faced and worked out to its concordant resolution according to the exact rules of perfect Principle.

PROGRESSIVE living is a condition of thought which is based on the understanding of divine law and on willingness to yield one's self to the guidance of that law. This condition is fundamental, because progress is both the law of God and the universal need of mankind.

WHEN some spiritual fact about God and man dawns in the consciousness of an individual, the resultant is what is called a Christian Scientist. This appearing of the truth is to the individual the birth of the Christ, and the resurrection and the ascension must follow.

THE beatitudes have to do with one's experience from the time the light of Truth first dawns upon consciousness, through the changes attending purification of thought, until the completion of individual redemption, when one becomes a steadfast power for good, like a "city that is set on an hill. " In their unity they awaken the triumphant song of hope and stimulate progress in the work of emancipating the human race from the burden of sickness and sorrow, sin and death.