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WHEN Jesus said to his disciples, "I am among you as he that serveth," he not only rebuked their mortal striving as to who should be greatest, but he also definitely revealed the sign by which mankind might always recognize the presence of Truth. The desire to be of service to the world is a common characteristic of mankind, but the selfish element of the human mind too often seeks some lordly elevation over one's fellows, whence it may "exercise authority upon them" and thus be "called benefactors.

HUMANLY perceived, truth appears to be an attribute; metaphysically understood, it is a concrete fact, perfect, complete, infinite. The comprehension of this is a comparatively simple matter; the application of it necessitates a profound understanding of Christian Science, an understanding at which we can arrive only by constantly testing our thoughts in regard to the smallest details as well as to the most important affairs of our daily life.

IN coming into Christian Science, one of the first things which the student learns is that the many beliefs he has entertained regarding himself are utterly void of truth and without foundation, and that it is doubtful if he has a single right thought about himself, unless it should be the belief that he is a child of God; but his conception of what God is and of what God does is so at variance with the truth, that this belief is of little if any value to him. The world is suffering from its delusions about God and man, as evidenced by the misery, sin, and disease prevalent on earth today; and it follows that Christian Science, to do all it claims to do, is and must be essentially revolutionary, displacing old and self destructive concepts with new and constructive ones.

MANY more people will be led to accept the teaching and practise of Christian Science when they find that it has a Scriptural basis on which the leaders and founders of other churches also laid claim to works of healing. When this fact becomes more generally known, a greater desire will be manifested to learn the reason why Mrs.

TRUE manhood brightens all the world. What an effulgence announces the appearing of the right idea of man to human consciousness! What brilliancy pierces the gloom of mortal belief and dissipates the lethargy of personal sense, when the understanding of man as the son of God dawns upon the waiting thought! No wonder "the glory of the Lord shone round about" the watchful shepherds, and the wise men saw his star in the east, when Jesus came to bring this light to earth! Christian Science is making plain to a great throng the meaning of a star as the symbol of spiritual light.

JESUS the Christ was ever directing thought to the realm of the supersensible. He was too wise and too scientific to reckon himself on a level with the physical senses.

THE publication of a new book from the pen of the author of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" is an event of world wide interest. There is probably no book published in this day, nor any book in the past save one of Mrs.

CHRISTIAN SCIENCE declares and demonstrates that God, the infinite, omnipotent Mind which was so fully manifested by Christ Jesus, heals the sick today, and is "the savior of the body," to quote St. Paul, as well as the savior, or redeemer, of that human sense which has long been called the soul.

OF the many illuminating passages in the Christian Science text-book, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mrs. Eddy, none is more profoundly significant than the statement that "mortal existence is a state of self-deception and not the truth of being" ( p.

[Readers of The Christian Science Journal will be interested in the editorial note on the writer of the following article, as it appears in the Table of Contributors to the December (1913) issue of The North American Review: "'A Churchman' is a priest in the Protestant Episcopal church. His work among his own people and his observations of those outside his communion have led him to the conclusions embodied in the present article.