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When Florence Nightingale began the arduous task of nursing, she set aside a social career. Later she was instrumental in establishing nursing as acceptable work for women.

Experience teaches us that as we go about our daily affairs we must be alert to discern the difference between what is real and what is unreal. Experience further teaches us that the old adage, "Seeing is believing," is not always true.

What did Christ Jesus know that enabled him to heal the sick and raise the dead? Christian Science teaches that Jesus understood that matter has no life and intelligence and that God, good, is all-inclusive. If we would demonstrate Christian Science, we too must know the unreality of matter and the allness of Spirit.

Mary Baker Eddy asks: "Who wants to be mortal, or would not gain the true ideal of Life and recover his own individuality? I will love, if another hates. I will gain a balance on the side of good, my true being" (Miscellaneous Writings, p.

There is an influence for good, a divine, irresistible impulsion heavenward, ever present in human consciousness, and the spiritual idea of God, divine Love, will reveal and develop it. This pure influence for good dispels the pride of place, hypocrisy, and selfishness, which would becloud spiritual vision and corrupt the innocency whereby one enters into the atmosphere of Spirit.

" We are troubled on every side," wrote Paul in the midst of tribulation, "yet not distressed; we are perplexed, but not in despair; persecuted, but not forsaken; cast down, but not destroyed" ( II Cor. 4:8, 9 ).

The exhortation of the Apostle Paul to the Ephesians to "put off.

Because of his interest in world affairs, the writer has often asked himself what he could do to further understanding between nations. One day, after he had pondered this question silently for some time, he recalled an experience he had had during World War II.

" For this purpose the Son of God was manifested, that he might destroy the works of the devil" ( I John 3:8 ). All who spiritually understand the Son of God, or Christ, can prove Truth's liberating power in overcoming the various claims of evil which confront mankind.

The dedication in 1953 of a new ultramodern school on the remote, nearly inaccessible northern tip of Okinawa, where at the time there was no village, nor were there any people within miles, evidences the vital importance Okinawans place upon education in human affairs. They wished to build a village adjacent to the school site, but the school had to come first before people could bring children into the area and be assured of education for them.