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One of the notable passages in the Old Testament is that which tells of the changing of Jacob's name to Israel at Peniel; but the circumstances preceding the change also deserve consideration as explaining the nature of the problems which Jacob had to overcome on this occasion. Following the agreement which Jacob had eventually reached with Laban after long years in his service (see Gen.

In the seventeenth chapter of Matthew we read that Jesus healed the epileptic boy after his disciples had failed in their efforts to do so. The disciples did not understand why they had been unsuccessful, and they asked Jesus privately to explain their failure.

When asked by King Darius if his God had saved him in the lions' den, Daniel replied (6:22), "My God hath sent his angel, and hath shut the lions' mouths, that they have not hurt me: forasmuch as before him innocency was found in me. " This quality of innocency which saved Daniel from being harmed by the beasts belongs to the true selfhood of each one of us.

Mrs. Eddy writes in Science and Health ( p.

Ill health, lack, hunger, fear, insecurity, incompatibility, and aging are universal problems from which people in every country are trying to find surcease. Are those confronted with these conditions finding satisfying answers? Mrs.

In a paragraph with the marginal heading "Spiritual translation" on page 209 of Science and Health, Mrs. Eddy makes this arresting statement: "The compounded minerals or aggregated substances composing the earth, the relations which constituent masses hold to each other, the magnitudes, distances, and revolutions of the celestial bodies, are of no real importance, when we remember that they all must give place to the spiritual fact by the translation of man and the universe back into Spirit.

" Entirely separate from the belief and dream of material living, is the Life divine, revealing spiritual understanding and the consciousness of man's dominion over the whole earth," writes Mrs. Eddy on page 14 of Science and Health.

In "Miscellaneous Writings," Mrs. Eddy asks ( p.

" When mortal man blends his thoughts of existence with the spiritual and works only as God works, he will no longer grope in the dark and cling to earth because he has not tasted heaven. " So writes Mrs.

As a traveler prayerfully meditated upon opportunities for spiritual growth afforded by journeying from place to place, the following lines from the Christian Science Hymnal came slowly to her thought (No. 388): When like a stranger on our sphere The lowly Jesus sojourned here, Where'er he went affliction fled, The sick were healed, the hungry fed.