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As one crosses the Golden Gate bridge approaching San Francisco, the beauty of the skyline with its hills topped by towers of steel and stone lies ahead. The broad Pacific to the right and the bay to the left, plied by great steamers from the ports of the world as well as by ships of the United States Navy and a multitude of fishing and pleasure craft entering and leaving the harbor, distracts one constantly.

Christian Science reveals God as the omniactive and omnipresent divine Mind and man, God's image and likeness, as the perfect, active idea emanating from this Mind. In this Science we learn that man's true action is the individualized expression of God's action, just as man's life is the individualized expression of Life, which is God.

Mankind have long understood the importance of rapid and reliable communication between individuals and nations and have tried systematically to develop it. Stage by stage, methods of communication have changed as surface mail has been partially replaced by airmail and telegraph wires by radiotelephony.

"And God said, Let there be light: and there was light. " Gen.

Time is not a factor in the reality of being. It is no part of immortal Life.

Early Christian history is a powerful drama involving courageous men and women who were messengers of God's Word. They journeyed to many parts of the civilized world of that time, carrying with them the precious seed of spiritual truth.

With deep spiritual penetration Mrs. Eddy writes: "Eloquence re-echoes the strains of Truth and Love.

God, being divine Mind, evolves ideas to express His nature and goodness. Without ideas He would not be Mind, or intelligence.

There is a great deal of discussion today about what is thought to be a widening and unfortunate gulf between the generations. Attempts to find the reasons for a breakdown in communication between young people and their elders seem to ignore the fact that this is no new phenomenon; it is as old as history.

Christian Science examines with assurance the profound question: What is the origin of thoughts, ideas, concepts, truth? It makes the revolutionary statement that at base all true communication is from God. To human sense, communication assumes many forms: the communication of skills and learning, communication in the arts and sciences and business, communication in emergency and at leisure, communication through the schools and television and the busy news and entertainment media of today.