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REVERENCE is a comely grace. When in the presence of some one whom we love and respect, we are naturally courteous, considerate, reverent, and it is well for us to remember that divine Love, surpassing all in wisdom, beauty, and grandeur, is ever present.

NEHEMIAH'S history can but furnish a helpful lesson in building up the consciousness in Truth, for we read that his desire became strong to restore the walls of Jerusalem, the city of his fathers, and to honor the one God, and that he accomplished his noble purpose by knowing how to work. First and always he knew that it was God's work he was doing, so there was no faltering in him, nor were there any backward glances or mistakes.

WHAT have not men sacrificed to forward human freedom ! From earliest recorded times few appeals have awakened a warmer response in the human breast or stirred men to more eager action than the plea for liberty. Thrilled by the centuries of accumulated sentiment with which that word is charged, men have gladly forsaken all to follow phantoms that promised freedom.

IN the twenty-eighth chapter of Genesis, wherein is told the story of Jacob's vision, the earliest mention of "the house of God" in the Scriptures is found. It will be remembered that Jacob was on his way from Beer-sheba to Padan-aram when he stopped for the night at Luz.

AN attempt to mix Spirit and matter in religious teaching has marked the religious history of the centuries. The church has formulated as its basic statement one God, one creator or cause, the infinite Spirit.

ALL who have precipitated and then analyzed the sediment of that brand of materialistic philosophy which has become impregnated with fatalism, have found it really teaches that human beings are no more than choice aggregations of predestinated protoplasm, and therefore that religion can be nothing better than a solemn hoax. It would be worth while for one to map out before the mind's eye the country, with its roads and byways, into which such a view could introduce him.

THE tales that appeal most to a child are those which stir the imagination and, not being enclosed in definite lines of statement, allow a certain play of the fancy. Such stories, from their absence of detail and from their sketchy outline, will generally be found to be precisely those which admit of a wide interpretation; and, provided they are founded on some great, unchanging law of truth, the appreciation of the child for the large variety of interpretations as to conclusions, shadows forth to the adult the probability of the discovery of an equal number of metaphysical meanings.

NOT until we begin to apply Christian Science do we learn what it demands of us, and then for a time perhaps only faintly. On what conditions may men find healing and happiness? "Unto whomsoever much is given, of him shall be much required.

WHEN the time draws near for the election of new readers in the branch Churches of Christ, Scientist, Section 6 of Article III in the Manual of The Mother Church may well be given careful study by the members. In past years it has been a moot question in some Christian Science churches whether a man or a woman should be elected to the office of first reader, the fact having been overlooked that our Leader definitely covered this point in a short article entitled "Readers in Church" ( The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and Miscellany, p.

LONG training in a literal and material interpretation of the Scriptures tends to unfit one to understand them spiritually. A hard and harsh literalness blots out the divine compassion inherent in the Bible and renders the student oblivious of its saving message.