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A Christian Scientist can prove that progressive achievement is not governed by cycles of success and failure. He need not accept human reasoning or believe that failure or deterioration are natural.

Some years ago as he was driving away from a countryside restaurant, a Christian Scientist suddenly realized that the waitress might have omitted from his bill an item that he had ordered. As he was about to return and pay for the item—provided it had been omitted—a very aggressive mental suggestion presented itself, "Don't go back, but get on with your journey.

The Bible, from Genesis to Revelation, teaches that God is the one great creator, the source of all life. The first chapter of Genesis records: "So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.

The writer of Hebrews heralded a Christian fellowship that would bring men confident expectancy of blessings in Zion. He described their experience in part as being welcomed "to the general assembly and church of the firstborn, which are written in heaven, and to God the Judge of all, and to the spirits of just men made perfect.

"You were half, now you're whole," goes the song. Propaganda like this often enters thought under the guise of a catchy tune.

Men want something new. They struggle over mountains for Yukon gold, push across subcontinents, and walk out into space.

From childhood on, people kept asking most of us, "What do you want to be when you grow up?" And who of us could say? We kept growing out of what we had grown into. We are even now a picture in our own mind's eye.

Human reasoning, unaided by perception of the spiritual dimension, frequently ends in limitation or frustration. When encountering the problems of the world, human beings often protest, resist, lament, rebel, disobey laws, make wars, despair, try escapism, or give up too easily.

Our age is in a state of rebellion against what it considers to be the hypocrisies and evasions of the past. That is a good thing, so far as it goes.

Famous as Solomon was for his great building program, his desire for wisdom was perhaps more typical of him. Early in his reign he had a God-given opportunity to further this desire.