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Nebuchadnezzar , king of Babylon, once vainly demanded of his pagan magicians and astrologers that they tell him a dream he had had and its interpretation. When Daniel, the Hebrew captive, heard of Nebuchadnezzar's decree that the wise men would be destroyed if they could not tell the king the dream, he begged time in which to reveal the mystery.

In Christian Science we learn that the spiritual wine of our communion cup is the understanding and inspiration of divine Love. It was this inspiration of Love which gave Christ Jesus the strength and courage to endure the earthly sorrows incident to his glorious victory over the mortal claim of death.

For centuries mankind has labored to find that true sense of existence recorded in the Bible ( Gen. 1:26 ): "God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.

Mortals spend much time and effort in seeking their right place. The fearful and unenlightened thought gropes about in the darkness of insecurity and indecision, anxiously desiring to do the right thing and to take the right steps.

According to Christian Science, which interprets the Scriptures, all right thinking is based on the unequivocal acknowledgment that God, good, is the only Mind, omnipotent, omniscient, and omnipresent, and that this one Mind is the Mind of man, God's image and likeness. Obviously, then, the one all-harmonious Mind contains and imparts no element of evil; and neither does man, who derives all from his creator.

" We live in an age of Love's divine adventure to be All-in-all. " Thus, on page 158 of her work "The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and Miscellany," Mary Baker Eddy gives enlightening evidence of the age in which we live.

" There is really no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather. " This saying was quoted by a certain Lord Avebury.

" The prayer that reforms the sinner and heals the sick is an absolute faith that all things are possible to God,—a spiritual understanding of Him, an unselfed love. " This statement by Mary Baker Eddy is in "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" ( p.

To be needed! Is that not a yearning common to all mankind? That longing should not go unsatisfied, for it is a righteous desire. Its answer is found in the assurance that each of us has a worthwhile place to fill in the present order of things.

Stable peace—the goal of civilized living. How the world tries through organized effort to establish peace! Yet, strangely enough, these attempts to achieve concord are made more often than not through the opposites of peace: strife and conflict.