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Universal salvation will not be won without due recognition by each individual of his God-given freedom to work out his own salvation. There are, of course, many who deny that any such freedom exists, who believe that the fate of mankind is predetermined either by an inscrutable deity or by human environment with its variety of determining forces and laws.

Christian Science teaches that healing and regeneration take place through a process of awakening. When the fact that man and the universe are spiritual replaces in the individual's awakened consciousness the fable of a physical man and universe, healing and regeneration are inevitable.

None of us need to resist learning. Why should we? The tree doesn't resist growing.

The need to differentiate between the real and the unreal enters in some measure into every activity of human experience. A high moral sense supports us in making right decisions; but the consistently accurate acceptance of that which is true and the rejection of that which is illusory require spiritual perception beyond the scope of ordinary human reasoning or variable sense testimony.

It is becoming increasingly clear to spiritually enlightened thought that there is but one government, that of divine Principle, and that this Principle actuates and protects all right human endeavors to express it. There is no outsideness to Principle, no escape from Principle's undeviating law and encompassing tenderness.

The crusades of medieval times appealed to the chivalric instinct of men and provided them with opportunities for adventure, penitence, and devotion. As military campaigns, the crusades were not effective.

God is good, infinite in goodness, mercifulness, and love. Because man is the image and likeness of God, he is identified by these qualities.

Do the events that comprise the experiences of human beings follow one another in a logical order, or do they just occur in haphazard fashion? We may well ask, "Is there a reasonable, acceptable explanation for each circumstance as to time and place?" In the Science of being, every experience is like each note in a scale, having its place in sequence and unable to precede or follow aught except the notes directly next to it. It is unable to change places with another note in the scale.

When Franklin D. Roosevelt took office as President of the United States it was during a world depression and at a time of panic.

" Unless thy law had been my delights, I should then have perished in mine affliction. I will never forget thy precepts: for with them thou hast quickened me" ( Ps.