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ONE great blessing for which the true Christian Scientist has to be thankful is the opportunity and necessity for study; and why? Simply because he has found that genuine study is the first requisite of genuine accomplishment, the high stepping-stone to practical demonstration, to the plane whereon mankind master the art of doing things. He who studies earnestly does not fail to learn, to understand; and he who thus learns and understands obeys implicitly the apostolic injunction, "Work out your own salvation, " thereby proving his knowledge by his deeds.

THE fourteenth chapter of Exodus contains a grand lesson of encouragement to all Christian Scientists, individually and collectively, and especially valuable to students who in some measure perceive that active service and progress are the ceaseless demands of God, the divine Principle of Christian Science, but who are confronted with obstacles which seem impassable. When viewed through the lens of Christian Science, the crucial event of the exodus from bondage narrated in this chapter is indeed most inspiring to those who find themselves faced by difficulties in personal or family affairs, in business or professional life, or in governmental problems.

ACCORDING to Jesus' command, the work of a Christian Scientist is twofold, namely, "to preach the gospel, and to heal the sick. " The first is an endeavor to instruct the human consciousness out of its erroneous beliefs regarding God, man, and the universe.

MRS. EDDY tells us in Science and Health ( p.

IT should be remembered that Christianity is divine, not human; its means and methods are not evolved from the mortal mind; hence it is not surprising that the real function of prayer which is designed to lift thought above the sense of evil should not be readily understood by the evil-thinking mind. As a matter of fact mortals are being delivered or protected every day from troubles of various kinds through what they know of the right rule of things, although from this right rule the wrong way is wholly separated.

ON first coming into Christian Science, one feels a great sense of uncertainty as to the correctness of his own judgment in deciding what is right and what is wrong. At this point he is in danger of adopting some other person's sense of what is right before he has become so impregnated with the truths of Christian Science that he has learned in some measure to be sure as to what Principle demands.

IN response to a request from one who seemed interested in Christian Science, a copy of the text-book, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," was supplied him, and after some days the book was returned with the comment that to this inquirer Christian Science seemed but cold comfort; that he did not propose to believe in it until he could see the dead raised. Over nineteen hundred years ago the Master said substantially that if people did not believe the works which he did, neither would they believe though one rose from the dead.

Prophets are divisible into two main classes, the prophet pessimist and the prophet optimist. The reason why the prophet is without honor in his own country is because pessimism is the key-note of many prophecies, and no person is more exasperating than the friend whose assertive "I told you so" merely pours corrosive sublimate upon the sores of defeat.

EVER since our schooldays the achievements of great men have been held up to us as examples of what we may accomplish if we will only make the most of our opportunities. The fact that the world's greatest benefactors started in very humble walks of life and were often obliged to reckon with poverty, discouragement, neglect, lack of appreciation, abuse and even violent opposition, to say nothing of a host of other negative factors, is emphasized to magnify their triumphs and to encourage us to meet with an equable mind the difficulties we have to face.

MAN'S individual being is spiritual. By individual is meant that which cannot be divided into component parts.