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Influences play an important part in human experience, and much of education and human progress depends upon the proper selection and utilization of these influences. Wholesome and constructive influences that come through the social agencies for enlightenment and education, through the media of communication, and through daily contacts with associates and-friends are welcomed and appreciated by most of us.

" Wist ye not," Jesus said, "that I must be about my Father's business?" ( Luke 2:49, ) Do all of us, both men and women, who go daily about the duties of living and of making a living, know what our true and only business is? Mrs. Eddy has given us in the Manual of The Mother Church a remarkable statement on alertness, which it is the privilege of all Christian Scientists to ponder during their business day.

We read in the Bible that when the Holy Ghost descended on the followers of Christ Jesus on the Day of Pentecost, "every man heard them speak in his own language" ( Acts 2:6 ). Those who had gathered to listen asked one another in amazement, "How hear we every man in our own tongue, wherein we were born?" Under the marginal heading "Pentecost repeated," Mrs.

When Christ Jesus declared ( John 6:63 ), "It is the spirit that quickeneth; the flesh profiteth nothing: the words that I speak unto you, they are spirit, and they are life," he made a separation between the flesh and Spirit, thus emphasizing that true life is not in matter or the flesh, but in Spirit and in Truth, which he embodied. Mrs.

It is recorded in the twenty-second chapter of Matthew that a lawyer asked Christ Jesus which of the commandments in the law was the greatest. Jesus replied in substance that to love God supremely was the first and great commandment.

Christian Science shows that angels are tangible, vital, spiritual. They come as blessings.

Today in increasing numbers men are seeking spiritual guidance in order that the daily problems and swift changes confronting them may be met. The question often arises, "How can I obtain divine guidance?" Christian Science supplies the answer simply and directly and as surely as in the cases of Moses and others whose spiritual enlightenment is recorded in the Bible.

Good company, precious and joy-giving, results from one's expression of God, divine Love, in daily life. Unselfish interest, the sharing of ideas that enrich and uplift, mutual trust, and other worthy traits, blending harmoniously, like musical tones, make up the symphony of good company.

Truth is out of the range of any earthly limitations and powers, for Truth, as understood in Christian Science, is God, the All-in-all. It is to this allness that men must turn if they would be free from the age-old beliefs of sin and disease.

Come now, and let us reason together, saith the Lord" ( Isa. 1:18 ).