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In times of stress and fear in the world, humanity turns for help to some power outside itself. There are those who claim that they do not believe in a power outside material means for protection, but many others believe that there is an intelligence or a spiritual force beyond human or material capabilities that has the power to protect them.

In the "Historical Sketch" from the Manual of The Mother Church by Mrs. Eddy, we read ( p.

Everyone would be glad if he could find a way to gain immunity from disease and the many other troubles which afflict mankind. Medical doctors, believing that a human being is governed by a material body with a complex organization liable to attack by disease germs, try to confer immunity by certain material methods.

Moses placed the sacrificial altar at the door of the tabernacle of worship. This position emphasized to the people that the first step toward communion with God was the sacrificial atonement for sin.

There is probably no topic more discussed in conversation than the weather, and it appears to have a great influence on the daily lives of mankind. In most areas of the globe the weather evidences inclement extremes of one or other of its elements.

In what has come to be known as the Sermon on the Mount, Jesus said ( Matt. 7:13, 14 ), "Enter ye in at the strait gate: for wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leadeth to destruction, and many there be which go in thereat: because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it.

Nearly one hundred years ago Mrs. Eddy discovered the fact that God, Mind, is the only cause and substance of existence, the only reality of all being.

The Bible records numerous instances of great blessings which came as the result of obedience. Noah obeyed God when told to build the ark, and thus he and all his family were protected from the flood.

The Christian Science nurse does not take the place of the practitioner on a case, but she does have a definite part in supporting the metaphysical work done by the practitioner. Her wise and practical care of the sick—her tender encouragement and loving faithfulness in filling her consciousness with spiritual truth in spite of every mortal suggestion—is valuable in the progress and completion of a healing.

When the sun's rays at break of day spread across the sky, the sunrise seems to the watcher like the birth of something new. Later, when the setting sun fills the sky with gold and crimson, which soon fade away, the sunset seems like an end to that which was so newly born.