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LIKE every good human quality, fidelity must be governed by divine understanding before it can be safe from perversion. Christian Science finds every individual in a certain stage of thought, and there and then a process of development is initiated which should never stop until the human is transformed into the image of the divine.

ALL Christian Scientists find unfailing interest in searching for the metaphysical meanings of Bible records and sayings, especially the sayings of Jesus; meanings which not only amplify but often change the merely literal interpretations. Because truth is infinite in its applications, it is probable that every phase or statement might be variously paraphrased; but students often find that the thoughts which come to one are a help to another in discovering yet deeper meanings.

EVERY earnest Christian Science student knows what is necessary in order for a church organization, engaged in promoting the cause of Truth on earth, to be progressive. We all know it is our first duty and privilege to reflect the one Mind that was in Christ Jesus, and that we must be ready and glad to do our share in carrying on the various church activities.

ALMOST every one can recall incidents that stand out in recollection more boldly than their apparent value warrants. These reminiscences seem to us still more clearly defined as we progress in Christian Science and learn that it "resolves things into thoughts " ( Science and Health, p.

WITH its God-bestowed power to heal and bless, Christian Science is finding its way into institutions which care for children, some of whom have been taken from the streets of our large cities and sent through the courts. Some teacher or matron who is trying to reflect divine Love, remembers and heeds the Master's admonition, "Feed my lambs.

PERHAPS no other form of virtue has been extolled so much as obedience, for there is no human activity into which it does not enter to some extent, and it is necessary that it should. Obedience and faith go hand in hand.

ONE of the great blessings which Christian Science bestows upon the earnest student of its teachings is the improved sense of progressive activity which comes to him as his mentality gradually expels the material beliefs which comprised to a large extent his former view-point, and he awakens by degrees to the wonders of that spiritual consciousness characterized by the apostle as "the deep things of God. " In this thought-transforming process his concept of time undergoes a very radical change, for the hours that once were spent in toilsome search for intellectual or artistic proficiency, or were wasted, prodigal fashion, in the aimless pursuit of mere amusement, assume the character of multitudes of "golden" moments, the conservation and righteous employment of which do indeed make him "rich toward God.

THAT history repeats itself was never more conclusively proved than in the attitude of many professing Christians toward the healing of disease and sin by Christian Scientists, who look upon it as an essential and perfectly natural part of their religion. One of these unfriendly critics recently said, "I suppose that there are cases of healing accomplished through Christian Science, but no one can make me believe that it is through any good agency," implying in his remark that it must needs be then through some evil power that the good (for healing is certainly good) is wrought.

ALTHOUGH the discovery of Christian Science was in itself an event of supreme importance, its practical significance would have been lost to the world but for certain rare qualifications of leadership which enabled its Discoverer to become the pioneer of a new dispensation. More than one spiritually minded individual in the past had experienced the vision of man as God constitutes and knows him; but it remained for Mrs.

ONE of the inherent tendencies of the finite mind is to make outlines and plans as a basis for future activities. An outline of what it is going to do tomorrow seems necessary to a knowledge of how to proceed today.