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Earnest students of Christian Science must realize with ever-increasing gratitude the unfailing manner in which their religion regulates even the lesser affairs of daily living. All right prayer must be based on this one desire,—that things shall be regulated as they ought to be, and not as mortals think they should be.

In Christian Science we learn to distinguish between what is called in Science and Health ( p. 185 ) the "suppositional activities" of mortal mind, and that activity of the divine Mind which is referred to by Mrs.

There has been great misapprehension on the part of mortals as to what actually constitutes law, but Christian Science makes it clear that law is not variable but fixed, underlying every effect. Not understanding this, mankind has held itself subject in belief to two kinds of law, which may be briefly summed up as civil or moral law and natural law.

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.