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After their safe passage through the Red Sea, the Hebrews wholeheartedly joined with Moses in expressing gratitude in a triumphant paean of victory. True, they hailed the Lord as "a man of war," whose "right hand.

The story of David, the shepherd lad, who subdued the giant, Goliath, is an incident of courage almost unparalleled in Bible history. Never for a moment did this gallant youth of Israel hesitate to meet the dreaded giant of Gath, because he knew that the "battle" was not his, but the "Lord's" ( I Sam.

The way to really see Yosemite National Park," said the Ranger Naturalist , "is to get off the roads and hike! A glorious panorama of the whole valley may be seen by taking Four-Mile Trail to Glacier Point tomorrow. " As the writer and other park visitors began the more than three-thousand-foot climb, aggressive thoughts suggesting that she should turn back kept coming to her.

Thoughts are active mental forces which mold and fashion our daily experiences, manage our relationships, and bring either harmony or inharmony to the body. Thinking—the art of selecting, entertaining, and utilizing thoughts—guides every endeavor to a successful culmination according to the degree of the Rightness of the thoughts entertained and utilized.

Would you like to have the unfailing support of a spiritual staff, as well as a rod of defense against evil? It is encouraging to know, through the teachings of Christian Science, that God has given us a staff and a rod and also makes it possible for them to become a scepter. In Biblical times shepherds carried a staff and a rod in their work of tending the flocks.

Christian Science enables its adherents to rise above mortal opinions and to be increasingly responsive to the facts of the divine Mind, God. In proportion as this is done, we are uniting with reality, and our experience will show it.

Corporeal self-consciousness is generally regarded as an undesirable quality or state of mind. It continually centers thought on material personality, on limited, selfish wants and aims, and it tends to preclude the broader, less selfish thought which is concerned for the well-being and happiness of others.

The prophet Jeremiah once asked the people of Judah at a time of persistent wrongdoing on their part ( 13:23 ), "Can the Ethiopian change his skin, or the leopard his spots? then may ye also do good, that are accustomed to do evil. " Christian Science explains that no mortal characteristic should ever be looked on as so ingrained that it cannot be eradicated, however deep-seated it may seem to be, and takes this stand on the authority of the Bible statement that God created man in His own image and likeness—a pattern which can never be altered.

The Hebrew patriarch Abraham breached the wall of pagan mythology and proclaimed the revolutionary doctrine that there is but one true Deity, Almighty God. Centuries later, the fearless Moses, under God's directing, made another major contribution to the spiritual progress of mankind.

The complexities of our modern-day world, with its multitudinous economic, governmental, and social problems, sometimes cause people to look backward with nostalgia and remark, "Those were the good old days!" However, as one examines each period of human history, he readily sees that although the scene changes, the problems remain the same in essence. For example, taxation seems a heavy burden today, and many individuals feel that reforms of some nature are essential.