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EVERY one who accepts Christian Science can but be deeply impressed with the magnitude of the truth that a perfect God has made man in His image. This truth may come as gently as a June dawn; it may come as the reward of years of eager, weary search, or it may come in a sudden, sense-blinding vision as it came to Saul on the Damascus road, destroying our belief in the material and opening our eyes to the spiritual.

OVER the ice-locked earth the balmy breath of spring has sent its insistent message, and with all but imperceptible stir the wonder of growth in response to the ceaseless divine summoning again begins its renewed manifestation before our eyes. Once more is enacted the entrancing drama of the progress of the year through its successive scenes of birth, awakening, growth, maturity, decay, until at length the curtain falls upon its close.

IN all ages there have been those whose keen vision has to some extent penetrated through their material surroundings, enabling them to discern something of the truth of being. The knowledge thus gained has imparted to their existence an element of certainty, surety, and continuity, the faith attained being to them indeed "the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.

THE habit of censure implies a belief in something apart from good, and, whether humanly just or unjust, censure and all its attributes can never be found in the realm of reality, where all is blameless perfection. We learn in Christian Science that the tender, loving Father has glorified His only begotten child with the reflection of His perfect selfhood, therefore to condemn man is in the same breath to condemn God.

NO teaching of Christian Science is more beautiful and satisfying than that concerning man. The apostle John once wrote, "If a man say, I love God, "and hateth his brother, he is a liar: for he that loveth not his brother whom he hath seen, how can he love God whom he hath not seen?" and from the old point of view this seemed "an hard saying" indeed.

SOMETIMES the beginner in the study of Christian Science, although fully convinced of the truth of its teachings, feels at a loss as to the proper method of applying them. It may seem to him either that he does not know enough to begin this work, or that he does not understand how to make use of the little he knows.

THERE is nothing more characteristic of the instability of modern scholasticism than its effort to find an explanation of the miracles which shall be at once rational and yet consonant with the Nicene definition of the Trinity. The old scholasticism suffered from no such hesitations; its theology was as full-blooded as its manners.

" THE thing that thou doest is not good. " If asked by whom and to whom these words were spoken, many of us would need to think over our store of Biblical history before answering that they were addressed to Moses by his father-in-law Jethro.

TWICE each year the Christian Science churches throughout the world extend a loving invitation to those interested in this teaching to join their membership. When these invitations are given, there will come to many the question, "Why should I join the church?" This is an entirely proper question, and before taking this step every one ought to be certain that it is answered satisfactorily.

OUR revered Leader writes in Science and Health (p. 126) , "I have found nothing in ancient or in modern systems on which to found my own, except the teachings and demonstrations of our great Master and the lives of prophets and apostles.