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COMING up from the swamps, quicksands, and deserts of human belief, and starting on the inevitable journey toward the highlands of spiritual understanding, the student of Christian Science has much to learn aright. He certainly needs to understand the truth about God and man, and to know that his understanding of the truth established in consciousness by demonstrations of the Principle of Christian Science cannot be reversed.

MORTALS have a constant dread of what they call a hereafter. They are not sure of their prospects in "the world to come.

OF all the many English translations of the Bible, not one has ever succeeded in disputing the supremacy of the King James, commonly known as the authorized version. In it, truly, if it be permissible to employ a phrase which has become almost banal by repetition, is to be found the "well of English undefined.

AN inexperienced advocate sometimes makes the mistake of assuming a burden of proof which by the rules of logic and procedure should rest upon his opponent. Sometimes a new student of Christian Science makes a similar mistake.

" If any man come to me, and hate not his father, and mother, and wife, and children, and brethren, and sisters, yea, and his own life also, he cannot be my disciple. " The authorized version of the New Testament quotes Jesus as saying this.

THE mortal sense of things is by its very nature limited and faulty, and those who accept its testimony live in a state of daily fear. It imposes burdens which are borne until the awakening to a right concept of God and man comes.

HISTORY and legend may dispute the claims of that heroic character, Joan of Arc, but literature, music, and art have found inspiration in her story. Led on by angelic summons and the visitation of a heavenly host, her courageous fidelity to her vision awakens thought to present hopeful endeavor.

A FRIEND writes to tell of an ex-clergyman who said to him in the course of conversation: "I consider that my education began only when I commenced to study Christian Science. " Large numbers of intelligent and cultured people are in the same position.

AMONG the countless unlisted impositions of self, one which is subtly detrimental to progress in Christian Science is the habit of comparison. This statement has in it no power to depress the student who has found a type higher than that measured by his own immediate attainment, but it should have power to weigh the thought which at any time renders the student either self-complacent or, contrariwise, mentally jaded.

THE question of supply touches each individual closely, for however favorably he may seem to be circumstanced there is always something which he believes is still needed to complete his satisfaction. According to the allegorical story of the beginning of the human race, this problem dates from the expulsion of mortals' first parents from Eden, and has continued to be a vital question for all humanity.