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Moral courage comes with spiritual understanding. Nothing but an absolute conviction, based on knowing the truth, can secure the bravery requisite to meet the stings of fear and the threats of impending doom which the carnal mind hurls at those who are making the pilgrimage from sense to Soul.

Few problems are more difficult for the student of Christian Science to understand and satisfactorily solve than that of human relationships, or our duty to our fellow men. The whole question is such a vital one, and to the human sense so complicated, that we are often tempted to evade it altogether, or to defer the solution to some dim and distant future; yet until we have met and to some extent mastered it, we can make little real progress in our demonstration of Christian Science.

The triumph of the boy David over Goliath, as given in the seventeenth chapter of I Samuel, is full of lessons for the good soldiers of this day in overcoming the Philistines of the flesh that seem to antagonize their peace and spiritual growth. One of the illusory foes they have to meet is that of worry, defined as "a state of perplexing care, anxiety, or annoyance.

Christian Science is revolutionizing the world by giving a new definition of sin. Its most impressive teaching is to the effect that all evil is in the realm of the mental, subjective rather than objective.

In a little book by Professor Drummond we read: "Every one has asked himself the great question of antiquity as of the modern world: What is the summum bonum —the supreme good? You have life before you. Once only you can live it.

Christian Science is distinctively a religion of doing, not saying. It is attracting attention throughout the civilized world because it is healing sickness according to gospel methods, something which others have for centuries failed to do.

On page 402 of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" Mrs. Eddy writes: "The time approaches when mortal mind will forsake its corporeal, structural, and material basis, when immortal Mind and its formations will be apprehended in Science, and material beliefs will not interfere with spiritual facts.

Entirely apart from the question of physical healing, it is generally conceded that Christian Science produces a happy and contented mentality, that it destroys fear and makes people loving and kind. When we add to this the fact that it has healed many sick people who had previously been unable to find relief under other systems, that it has cured many of the drug habit and the liquor habit, has restored harmony in many homes which were discordant, and has given hope and courage to people who were discouraged, it is easy to understand why it has spread with such wonderful rapidity.

PROBABLY every student of Christian Science, quite early in his experience, feels that he has never really known how to pray, and echoes the cry of the disciples to their Master, "Lord, teach us to pray. " In the beautiful chapter on Prayer in the Christian Science textbook, Mrs.

UPON coming into Christian Science, our false concepts of life and happiness undergo so gradual a change that one is not fully aware of the mighty work of this leaven of Truth, until suddenly some passage in the Scriptures or in the Christian Science literature stands out illumined, and in its light we see the distance which we have traveled in our journey from sense to Soul. At such moments discouragement at our seeming slowness in rising out of material conditions vanishes, because we are rejoicing in actual accomplishment instead of wearily contemplating the daily problem; and in this rejoicing more and more of the light of divine Truth is filling our consciousness.