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IN the thirty-seventh psalm we are encouraged to patient confidence in God by these words: "The meek shall inherit the earth; and shall delight themselves in the abundance of peace. " Meekness, or humility, may be defined as freedom from pride, arrogance, and self-righteousness.

IN that assemblage of qualities embraced in our concept of character, kindness, gentleness, and patience may be regarded as simple, homely virtues not capable of rivaling their fellows in that coterie where intellectual brilliancy and much learning may hold us spellbound by their glamour. But though these modest endowments may seem overshadowed by their more conspicuous companions, they nevertheless radiate and glow with a kindly and unfailing light.

IN the Scriptural allegory in Genesis, Adam, the generic type of mortal man, is represented as sentenced by the Lord God to a career of toil and hardship because of his disobedience in tasting the fruit of "the tree of knowledge of good and evil. " In this story we find an intimation that evil has its origin in the recognition of a relative standard of existence.

"THESE ought ye to have done, and not to leave the other undone. " How fresh the words of the Master always are! Though they have filtered down through nineteen centuries of human thought, they read as if spoken into our very ears.

" THY gentleness hath made me great," sang David; and his saying might be rephrased, The knowledge of Thy gentleness hath made me great. It is somewhat surprising that these words should come from the stalwart warrior king.

THE history of the search for truth is the history of the world's progress. Men have always been asking the why and the wherefore about existence, and these queries have formed the theme of philosophers throughout the ages.

Never was there a time when the fine aspirations of the young manhood and young womanhood of our country needed a more inspiring and direct Christian leadership. The indications of this need lie open to our sight on every side.

CHRISTIAN SCIENCE is the attempt to make practical in the twentieth century the religion which Jesus of Nazareth preached and practised in the first century. This religion was something more than a mere transcendental altruism doomed to be relegated in practise, as the wise men according to the flesh have decreed of the Sermon on the Mount, to the realm of the unattainable.

CHRISTIAN SCIENCE teaches that man is the infinite idea which expresses the nature and activity of infinite Mind. Words, human language, are spoken or written symbols used to express ideas.

FOR unnumbered people Christian Science has awakened an entirely new interest in the Parousia, the so called second coming of Christ and the establishment of his kingdom and rule among men. In discussing this question in the light of the Master's teaching, eschatologists and Bible critics in general have, roughly speaking, ranged themselves into two schools of thought, holding in most essentials opposite views on the subject.