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To those oppressed by the fettering theology of long centuries of superstition, one of the most striking and encouraging of Mrs. Eddy's inspired elucidations of the truth of being, of man's relation to God, is her unqualified statement to the effect that the greatest gift bestowed by a loving and just creator is the ability to recognize the nothingness of evil, and therefore to rise superior to its manifold forms.

He who delights in the ever-recurring miracle of the springtime sometimes finds himself looking back, in the midst of midsummer's sweet fulfilment, to recall the days when the world was just putting forth its first shy promises of coming joy. He loves to remember the first downy fluffing of the pussy-willow, the first flash of the bluebird's wing, the first faint blush of the peach tree, the first glimpse of the pale anemone hiding from the April sun.

To regenerate human thought so that it shall no longer call mortal man father, but shall recognize God, Spirit, as the only source of being, was and is the distinct purpose of Christianity. This calls for a change of consciousness such as Jesus indicated when he said, "Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God.

IT is axiomatic to the monotheist that whatever is true is of God, and that whatever is not of God is untrue. Plainly, then, an understanding of God is a prerequisite to the ascertaining of the truth about anything and everything.

AS mortal mind is unknown to Spirit, it cannot receive the Christ-idea. Only when there has been a breaking down of the barriers of false belief can the light of Truth enter into the hearts of men and heal them.

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.