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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.

THE great need of humanity is salvation from error, whether manifested in sin, disease, ignorance,fear, grief, poverty, or other discords. Whether one knows it or not, he needs to be saved from a wrong concept of existence, mistaken views of individuality and substance.

WHEN in Christian Science we first begin to understand God as Principle, we are apt to think that in losing our old sense of God as a superior sort of human being we are losing the warmth and comfort which came to us through such a belief. But when we begin to work by our new knowledge, and prove over and over again that God is omnipotent Life, Truth, Love, we find that a firm hold of this Principle which never varies is more comforting and helpful than any former belief in what we called a personal God.

PATHOS largely depends upon the helplessness of the characters involved. It is the inability of one of Dickens' characters to respond to the demand to "make an effort" which gives poignancy to the feelings of the reader.

A GROUP of sad faced relatives were bidding farewell to a young girl dressed in mourning. It was evident that there was great solicitude for her welfare, and the tenderest love was expressed.

CHRIST JESUS came as the light of the world, revealing to human consciousness the true sense of God and pointing to God alone as the source of all good, peace, and satisfaction, thus emphasizing the first commandment of the Decalogue, "Thou shalt have no other gods before me. " Rome had claimed to bring the light of civil and political reform through military strength, but it led to ruin and decay.