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" Be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed: for the Lord thy God is with thee whithersoever thou goest," was God's message to Joshua (Josh. 1:9).

The fact that through the ages mankind have sought to learn the nature of God and of man indicates the universal urge to find the essence of good. All who believe in God at all will acknowledge that God is good.

In the Christian Science textbook, Science and Health, Mrs. Eddy writes (p.

A Young Christian Scientist, who had attended the Christian Science Sunday School from childhood and is now a member of a branch Church of Christ, Scientist, not having long passed the Sunday School leaving age of twenty, wrote to me recently. He commented that Christian Science is a "dynamic religion," and that this fact should prove attractive to young people "since they seem to appreciate something that swings.

Much of humanity seems burdened with a false sense of responsibility and the heaviness it induces. But our Way-shower, Christ Jesus, said ( Matt.

Of all the trials of Abraham's faith which came to him over a long period of years, none was more searching than the one recorded in the twenty-second chapter of Genesis. His eager desire to have an heir by his wife Sarah had now been fulfilled, and he was assured that his descendants through Isaac would be innumerable; but before the lad was old enough to have children of his own, the thought came to Abraham that he himself must sacrifice this only and dearly loved son.

Is our capacity to live with divine grace related to the laws of material heredity and environment? "Do men gather grapes of thorns, or figs of thistles?" ( Matt. 7: 16.

The biography "Mary Baker Eddy: A Life Size Portrait" by Lyman P. Powell includes a chapter entitled "Finding Herself.

Stories of human effort abound in the Bible, but Christ, Truth, alone reveals the significance of this effort. Moses had to strive to understand the message of the burning bush and Jacob the spiritual meaning of Peniel.

Mankind are seeking release from the stress and strain that result from their believing in an existence apart from God. Satisfactory and lasting release from such conditions can come only by their gaining a correct understanding of the facts of real existence, as taught in Christian Science, and expressing these facts in daily life.