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THE varied experiences of the children of Israel during their deliverance from bondage and their forty years' sojourn in the wilderness are in a way typical of the experiences all seem called upon to pass through in their journey from the material sense of existence to the spiritual reality of being as it is revealed in Christian Science. As the follower of Christ, Truth, today compares his experiences, the trials and temptations, the joys and victories, with those of the children of Israel, he is oftentimes surprised to note the similarity between them.

WHEN "the seventy returned again with joy, saying. Lord, even the devils are subject unto us through thy name," Jesus rejoiced with them, and reaffirmed in stronger terms this assertion of power.

EARLY in the experience of every one who is seeking a better way and is convinced that he has found it in Christian Science, there comes a period of rejoicing in the thought that evil has been dethroned. That God and good are synonymous terms, leaving no place to be filled by devil or evil, is a thought of restful significance, bringing peace and quiet into a world of struggle and tiresome effort and oftentimes apparent defeat.

TELL his disciples and Peter that he goeth before you into Galilee. " Was there ever a more winning message to a faithless follower than this, given on the morning of the resurrection? "And Peter.

IT is well worth the while of every Christian Scientist occasionally to ask himself, How am I regarding disease? To what extent do my preconceived opinions about it occupy my thought and influence the harmony of my life today? To what extent do they hamper my 'successful handling of it when I encounter it? Mrs. Eddy, by her fidelity to revelation and by demonstration, has made it possible for all of us to recognize the one true fact about disease, viz.

ONE of the strongest longings of the human race is the deep desire to know. Job said, "Oh that I knew where I might find him!'' To the child knowledge seems an attainable thing, its acquirement the natural consequence of the grown-up state; he supposes that he will grow into knowledge after the same inevitable manner that he will grow into manhood.

THERE is a something in the heart of mankind which ever rebels against limitation. There is nothing one so loves to do as to leap over or trample down barriers, to break laws of limitation.

IT is as true today as it was twenty centuries ago, that "the effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much," for Christian Science is proving daily that such prayer is potent to heal the sick and to reform the evil-minded. The secret and subtle purposes of evil never permeate the atmosphere of true prayer, which is in no way associated with evil or occultism.

One of the unjust things said of Christian Scientists is that they are a prayerless people. This arises in part, doubtless, from the differing conceptions of what prayer really is.

THE one all-absorbing statement in history, that the gift of spiritual healing was at a certain period lost to mankind, gives its restoration among us today all the more significance. Our historians of the past have not interested themselves overmuch with this particular subject, hence the writer of the future will have a story all the more absorbing to relate.