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CENTURIES before Christ Jesus so practically advised his followers to "render to Caesar the things that are Caesar's," an Old Testament character had exemplified that aphorism, thereby handing down a valuable lesson in fidelity and patience. Driven from his home through the jealousy and treachery of his brothers, their carnal minds having been enraged because of his spirituality, sold into a shameful slavery, we find Joseph serenely confident in God's goodness, and apparently not unhappy in all with which he had to contend.

ONE of the results of growth in the understanding of Christian Science is a clearer recognition of the privileges and responsibilities of church-membership. When one becomes a church-member, he lifts his eyes beyond his own personal problem, perceiving that it is one with the larger problem of mankind, and with joy begins to demonstrate both outwardly and in his own consciousness his unity with that spiritual church which "is the structure of Truth and Love," and "which affords proof of its utility" (Science and Health,  p.

OWING to the fact that mankind have been reared with and into the belief that man's life is in the physical body, it is small wonder that selfishness and fear have been engendered in human experience. While one looks to the physical body as the seat and circumference of his life, health, and strength, he naturally feels that these are just as limited as is the body; and whenever any sense of limitation is entertained, then the thought of fear is also one's guest.

WHEN out of Love's abundance there comes a cessation of the ordinary routine, a time of refreshment in "green pastures" and "beside the still waters," we may take it gratefully, not so much for the benefit of rest, or change of scene, as for the opportunity it offers for spiritual unfoldment. To a healthy, growing Christian Scientist wider fields of thought and study are ever opening up, but these require a broader margin than the busy day with its manifold demands can give.

TO work is to overcome resistance, and the world is making every effort to reduce that resistance to a minimum. The improved machinery invented, with which to do the world's work, expresses an effort to overcome resistance and to do the work with ease and in the shortest possible time.

" WHAT a word! I am in awe before it" ( Miscellaneous Writings, p. 249 ).

IT is a generally accepted rule in all branches of public service wherein many individuals work together for a common cause, that each shall have a definite idea of his own respective function. This rule is so simple that it sometimes escapes notice; still its importance is so great and its observance so necessary, that no permanent success can be obtained in any department of life without obedience to it.

AT the present time, as well as in days long past, men have grown impatient at what seem the needlessly long delays in the establishment of righteousness in the world. In meeting this thought Peter says, "The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.

THERE is a sentence on page 124 of Science and Health, the spiritual understanding of which will loosen many a burden of suffering for mankind, remove many a yoke of fear, and break in sunder many a band of mortal law. It is as follows: "Adhesion, cohesion, and attraction are properties of Mind.

WE read in Exodus that "God led the people about, through the way of the wilderness. " It was not the way men would have taken, more especially if they could have foreseen forty years' wandering in the desert; but it was unerring guidance with a divine purpose in view.