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" No personal habit," says Huxley, "more surely degrades the conscience and the intellect than blind and unhesitating obedience to unlimited authority. " The full force of these words appeals at once to us, and the more one examines them the more does he become persuaded of their verity.

Mortals have to work for some hard taskmasters, but the worst of all employers is self. Self may be said to be in the moving picture business, and his pay, for those who work for him, is in pictures.

A skilful counterfeiter is sometimes capable of producing a bill or coin which closely imitates the lawful money issued by the government, but as soon as it gets into circulation the discovery of its falsity has become a mere question of time. Clumsier counterfeits are more numerous, and their detection is speedier.

Perhaps no passages in Scripture point more clearly to the fact of immortality or preexistence than do those to be found throughout the seventeenth chapter of John's gospel. By Christian people in general the term immortality has mostly been used as pertaining to life after death rather than to that eternality which covers what mortals call the past and the future.

A Careful study of human nature reveals an inherent disposition to descant upon the subject of evil and a disinclination to magnify the good, although we find in the Bible many admonitions to the contrary. Whence this abnormality so prevalent in the moral and religious world of today? Is it a God-given tendency? Is God in any way responsible for it? Is there any law of His to validate or sustain it? To those who were ready to hear the only logical answer to such queries Jesus said, "Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.

CONSTANCY , according to Webster, means, in its primary sense, "a standing firm; hence, applied to God and His works; immutability; unalterable continuance; a permanent state. " No one who admits the existence of God and the universe as created by Him, can fail to be struck by the application of this definition to man, who as part of God's "works" is in a condition of "immutability; unalterable continuance; a permanent state.

IN Christian Science we learn to think of God as Spirit, Mind; and that His kingdom is spiritual, infinite, and can be made visible through Mind alone. Human language is of no use in revealing God's kingdom only so far as it expresses the spiritual nature of all things.

THERE have been few if any books in the history of civilization which have had an influence in any way comparable to that of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures. " A school of literature, philosophy, or religious interpretation may arise and hold sway for several generations, but this is seldom achieved by one person.

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.