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Everyone at some time looks for a place: a place to live, a place to work, or a place of rest and peace. Some seemingly knotty problems often arise in this search, as when a change of employment or environment seems necessary.

The first instance of group or congregational singing recounted in the Bible is that of Moses and the children of Israel. They praised God for safe passage through the Red Sea and for deliverance from the Egyptians in these words: "I will sing unto the Lord, for he hath triumphed gloriously.

An experienced Christian Scientist said to me one day, "The mature Christ looks out of the eyes of the child. " If this is so, we should be careful in our work in the Christian Science Sunday School not to limit the pupils by thinking of them as immature.

" There I was in the middle of the street, with a great big automobile coming straight at me!" The boy opened his blue eyes wide in remembering. "I couldn't get out of the way.

Especially relevant today to mankind, including Christian Scientists, are the words in the fourth chapter of Zechariah: "Not by might, nor by power, but by my spirit, saith the Lord of hosts. " Apparently an angel talked to Zechariah in a night vision, telling him to encourage Zerubbabel, the civil ruler of Jerusalem, in his difficult and sacred task of rebuilding the temple of the Lord.

One often hears it said that some good which has come to oneself or to a friend is "too good to last. " Here is a clear illustration of the carnal mind's tendency to associate good with evil; to believe that for every good action, there is a possible reaction, which can take away all or part of the good received.

Do we believe that when God saw everything He had made, He found it very good? Do we really believe that He created everything that was made—everything that exists? The world seems to be full of evidences to the contrary. And yet mankind is gradually approaching some understanding of the universe as the expression of divine Mind.

The understanding which Christian Science imparts of God as the eternal cause, or Principle, of all true being removes perhaps the most tenacious belief of limitation which besets mortal existence, that of time. Mary Baker Eddy states in "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" ( p.

To those who believe that the Christ has already come in the person of Jesus and to those who still patiently wait for the Messiah, Christian Science offers great hope. It does this by revealing the nature of Christ as the divine idea of God, reflecting the omnipresence of God.

Those who have experienced the blessings which flow from the study and practice of Christian Science oftentimes speak of their gratitude and love for its Discoverer and Founder, Mary Baker Eddy. It was Mrs.