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Man's only responsibility is to please God, to do His will. When we operate from this basic premise, we find that we have dominion over our human problems.

I remember that, as a young boy, when I attended a Church of Christ, Scientist, with my mother, I always felt good afterward. Later, as a young adult, when I was going through some difficult times, one of the things that prompted me to take up the study of Christian Science was that I recalled how much better things had been after I heard the Lesson-Sermon Christian Science Quarterly Bible Lessons; read at church on Sunday mornings.

"It is a question to-day," writes Mrs. Eddy in Science and Health, "whether the ancient inspired healers understood the Science of Christian healing, or whether they caught its sweet tones, as the natural musician catches the tones of harmony, without being able to explain them.

The promise for Christians—and indeed for all humanity—has always been a splendidly full one. "I am come," Christ Jesus told us all, "that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly.

A young Sunday School pupil once happily remarked, "Oh, Christian Science— it's easy!" It certainly can be. The demonstration of Christian Science should be joyful, not laborious or burdensome.

The Christian Science Monitor! What is it? How did it evolve? It represents a Christlike movement of thought operating in the world of journalism with the intent to bless mankind—the spiritual goal that Mary Baker Eddy set for it. She established the Monitor in November, 1908, after a baseless newspaper attack on her and her movement had resulted in a lawsuit against her in the courts of New Hampshire.

There is no age and no recognition of age in the true concept of Church. As an eternal, spiritual idea, Church is firmly based in divine Mind.

What intriguing possibilities are present for every college student in Goethe's words to a youthful poet, A talent is formed in quietude, A character built in the stream of life. Torquato Tasso, Act I, Scene 2; One may long to realize this double promise, but where is there uninterrupted quiet to explore his inmost powers and resources? Or, plunging into the stream of life, how can he avoid total submergence? Sensing the dilemma, a student will often settle for only one or the other of Goethe's lines as achievable in experience: he may assiduously cultivate his talents and become a lone, ivory-tower specialist, or he may label himself the all-round practical type, lacking in depth and sensitivity.

When one brings his innermost thoughts and motives under the beneficent influence of the Christ, Truth, there is always hope for freedom from enslaving mortal beliefs that cause people to suffer. One can joyfully bring his thinking and living into accordance with higher ideals and more spiritual values.

Friday before Easter. Among hundreds of others, a young woman made her way from a crowded auditorium onto the street.