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DO we as Christian Scientists realize that there has never been a time since the hour when the revelation of the Science of being came to our revered Leader, when we needed to be more alert, more active or insistent in resisting the aggressive encroachments of seeming error? Do we manifest an understanding capacity for larger, better, and more lasting work? Do we ascend daily "into the hill of the Lord," praying for more wisdom, greater humility, more unselfed devotion to our beloved cause? Christian Scientists do not live for themselves. Every pain and ache overcome, every business problem worked out, every grief and sorrow assuaged, through the application of the Principle and rule taught in our text-book, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," makes our brother's burden that much lighter, and helps humanity the world over.

A STUDY of those chapters in the first three gospels which narrate the healing of the lunatic child is deeply interesting from the Christian Science view-point. This remarkable healing follows close upon the transfiguration of Christ Jesus, and the failure of the disciples to heal the boy is fully explained by the events which immediately follow this demonstration of divine power by the great Teacher.

ONE of the most pathetic phases of human endeavor is found in the persistent search for God, and in spite of the fact that apparently most of the effort expended in this search has been fruitless, it is continued. Numerous philosophies and religions, with the avowed and sincere purpose of revealing God to man, have come into being, flourished and decayed.

IT is often and most truly remarked that one of the chief characteristics of Christian Science is its gradual unfoldment to human apprehension. When first presented to the earnest seeker after Truth, it appears to him as a newly formed rosebud, which gives only a faint outward promise of its marvelous possibilities.

FROM what we are able to gather concerning the earlier life of Jesus of Nazareth, it is evident that his all-absorbing purpose was to know God, to realize in the fullest sense man's relationship to "the Father. " By reason of his spiritual-mindedness he perceived that God is Spirit.

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.