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As humanity advances in its insatiable quest for supremacy over material limitations, many are asking: "What will be the eventual outcome? Is mankind really progressing toward its goal of freedom?" Whatever the promise for the future, offered by the material sciences, it must appear insignificant in comparison with the import of the question propounded by Christ Jesus ( Matt. 16:26 ), "What is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?" It would be tragedy indeed if mankind were to gain mastery over a world and yet remain in bondage to the false sense of self.

In Isaiah, we read the divine promise ( 65:25 ), "They shall not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain, saith the Lord. " Is that holy mountain a particular locality? Several years ago, a Christian Scientist delivered a baccalaureate sermon at a great university.

On several occasions the Apostle Paul pointed out to the early Christian church the danger of splitting up into divisions or factions. He once wrote ( I Cor.

There is more security in one Godlike motive and act than in all the matter in the world. Security cannot exist in materiality, a state of thinking in which men deny the integrity of God and His creation.

In Christ Jesus' parable of the prodigal son, as recorded in the fifteenth chapter of Luke, it is made clear that the foolish wanderer, once he was truly repentant, found his father ready to receive him, not only with kind words of welcome, but with food and clothing. It is further brought out that the elder son who, we must infer, remained at home industriously working in the fields complained about the generous treatment accorded his erring brother.

If a claim were made to any of us for payment of something we had not purchased, there is no doubt that we would recognize at once the falsity of the claim; then we would deny it. With the same conviction should we refuse to accept the false claims constantly being presented to us through the press, radio, and television of a world in chaos and of sickness, sin, and death in all their myriad forms.

" Comfort ye, comfort ye my people, saith your God. " This compassionate utterance found in Isaiah ( 40:1 ) is being universally fulfilled today through the inspired teachings of Christian Science.

When Zechariah asked the young man with the measuring line ( 2:2 ), "Whither goest thou?" he answered, "To measure Jerusalem, to see what is the breadth thereof, and what is the length thereof. " But quickly came the admonition of an angel, "Run, speak to this young man, saying, Jerusalem shall be inhabited as towns without walls for the multitude of men and cattle therein.

" It shall be the duty of every member of this Church to defend himself daily against aggressive mental suggestion, and not be made to forget nor to neglect his duty to God, to his Leader, and to mankind. By his works he shall be judged,—and justified or condemned.

Christian Science will heal us if we will take its applicable truths into our consciousness and allow them to replace permanently the false beliefs which alone are at the root of our difficulties. When our consciousness is thus brought under God's government, healing takes place in our experience.