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Perhaps one has been heard to say, "I am up against a blank wall; I can see no way out. " Many of us have probably been in a quandary such as this one.

The opinion occasionally expressed that life today is complex, confusing, and mechanistic should be promptly identified as a counterfeit of the unalterable truth of spiritual being. The Christian Scientist holds that man's existence as the child of God is harmonious in action and complete in fulfillment of the design of God.

Referring to Christian Science, Mary Baker Eddy writes in "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" ( p. 461 ), "Only by the illumination of the spiritual sense, can the light of understanding be thrown upon this Science, because Science reverses the evidence before the material senses and furnishes the eternal interpretation of God and man.

In a letter to one of her students, Mary Baker Eddy wrote: "A real scientific Healer is the highest position attainable in this sphere of being. Its altitude is far above a Teacher or preacher; it includes all that is divinely high and holy" (Mary Baker Eddy: A Life Size Portrait by Lyman P.

No figure in the whole of history has stirred people's thought so radically and in such different ways as that of Christ Jesus. We remember the transformation of the Magdalen and also of Zacchaeus, the publican, when their hearts were touched by the penetrating, building-up, sin-destroying power of the Christ, as expressed by Jesus.

The questions as to what one is, why he is here, and what his destiny is have probably come to everyone at some time or another. Job asked ( 7:17 ), "What is man, that thou shouldest magnify him? and that thou shouldest set thine heart upon him?" The Psalmist queried ( Ps.

In the general thought of the world today much energy is expended and much interest is expressed on the question of supply. Human needs are multitudinous.

An individual's ideals reflect what he believes to be spiritually true. He who admits the absolute perfection of God and man will hold to correspondingly high ideals; while he who is under the illusion that sin or evil is a part of God and His creation will incline toward less lovely ideals.

The Easter season brings a renewed emphasis on the cross of our Master and the crown of his glorious victory. The cross was not the zenith of Jesus' lifework.

No material sense of things could separate the Apostle Paul from the sweet presence of God, divine Love, and the consciousness of this presence helped him to express an ever deeper love for mankind. He said ( Rom.