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" 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.

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.