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Today there is an urgent call for every student of Christian Science to use his spiritual understanding to protect himself, his home, his church, and his community from aggressive suggestions of evil which are claiming to be present, powerful, and active. Mrs.

Christian Science is the way of Life, which may be demonstrated individually through one's earnest study and application of this pure Science. At this point of emergence from the Adamic dream, however, mankind must work diligently for the least understanding of divine Science.

Many boys in their teens have had the pleasure of sailing. On one occasion when some boys were sailing their boat in the early evening, one of them suggested to another that he lie down on the deck of the boat, flat on his back, and hold on to the mast so that he would not fall off.

" Whatever envy, hatred, revenge —the most remorseless motives that govern mortal mind—whatever these try to do, shall 'work together for good to them that love God. ' "Why? "Because He has called His own, armed them, equipped them, and furnished them defenses impregnable.

Christian Science the Science of being—divine Science—is absolute, and the belief of human error exists only as a suppositional, relative state of mind. Christian Science teaches that absolute Being—God and His reflection—is perfect.

The French philosopher Descartes once wrote, "I think, therefore I am. " This simple but profound statement touches the fringes of a tremendous fact—that not a physical body, but consciousness, is the real identity of man.

MANY people in the world consider joy a transient thing, so rare and fleeting that to experience it occasionally is cause for wonder and gratitude. The student of Christian Science knows that true joy is not transient but is an essential and permanent quality of the real man.

MANY great thinkers have realized the power of thought. Marcus Aurelius said, "Remember that everything is but what we think it"; and as a character in one of Shakespeare's plays says, "There is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so"; and the writer of Proverbs declared of a man ( 23:7 ), "As he thinketh in his heart, so is he.

THERE is one God; He is All, and He is good. His creation, that which emanates from Him, manifests His goodness, wisdom, and love.

ONE of the wondrous aspects of mountain climbing is the glory of the view from an uppermost point. Spiritual perfection is the view and the goal that mankind is constantly, though often unconsciously, seeking.