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Paul exhorts us in II Corinthians ( 5: 20 ), "Be ye reconciled to God. " Acceptance of this admonition begins to establish for us a closer relationship with God, approaches the atonement, and brings a larger measure of human and divine coincidence.

According to the measure of their spiritual enlightenment, church means different things to different people. But to everyone seeking to follow the teachings of Christ Jesus, the church is mankind's highest concept of the search for God and of a sanctuary from the fears and sorrows of the world.

It is recorded in the Book of Genesis that the first son of the patriarch Abram, later called Abraham, was born to Hagar the bondmaid. This son typifies the concept of a mortal selfhood as comprised in the mistaken beliefs that man is a material entity which inhabits a physical body; that he suffers and enjoys according to what the senses claim he is feeling; and that he can be enslaved by these senses, since sometimes evil seems to be as real and as powerful as God, good.

To those wishing to establish or to improve their sense of home, Christian Science gives every help. It reveals that since the spiritual, real man is the son of God, his home is heaven, unassailable harmony.

In one of his letters to that courageous early Christian worker, Timothy, the Apostle Paul wrote ( II Tim. 1:7 ), "God hath not given us the spirit of fear; but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind.

The poet John Keats made an arresting statement when he wrote, Beauty is truth, truth beauty,—that is all Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know. Since the earliest days of civilization, mankind has sought beauty, and philosophers have speculated on its nature.

Job's  friend Eliphaz declared ( Job 5: 8-10 ), "I would seek unto God, and unto God would I commit my cause: which doeth great things and unsearchable; marvellous things without number: who giveth rain upon the earth, and sendeth waters upon the fields. " To "seek unto God" is the effective remedy which Christian Science invites the world to accept.

If there is any doubt in the minds of Christians as to the goal of life, it should be fully cleared away by the Scriptural counsel ( Lev. 19 ), "The Lord spake unto Moses, saying, Speak unto all the congregation of the children of Israel, and say unto them, Ye shall be holy: for I the Lord your God am holy.

A Glorious promise is included in the record of St. John's vision of the ultimate spiritual reality which will be revealed when Christ, Truth, shall have overcome all erroneous belief.

Most people have heard the expression, "You can't keep a good man down. " The reasoning behind this statement is that if an individual is basically good, good will finally assert itself again in his experience, and he will rise to overcome the thoughts and acts that caused his downward journey.