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The cry, "I can never believe in God again!" has been wrung from many whose world has seemed to collapse about them. When tragedy strikes us personally, or when we are faced with a national disaster, such anguish is understandable only if we believe God to be the cause of the evil or if we believe Him to be unwilling or unable to avert it.

Have you ever thought what a joyous thing song is? Mary Baker Eddy, the beloved Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, writes in her Message to The Mother Church for 1900 ( p. 2 ), "The song of Christian Science is, 'Work—work—work—watch and pray.

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.