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" Wake up, son! You're missing half the good of life!" Many times the writer heard these words from his father when he was a boy. Sometimes his father would add, "You can't go through life in a fog!" Good human counsel, this, and certainly in the right direction; but the question was how to follow it, how to awaken to reality and to stay awake.

Social security, unemployment insurance, a guaranteed annual wage, though they are considered by many to be an improved sense of one's responsibility to his fellow men, are still material means of attaining so-called security, and these must be bargained and fought for. The hydrogen bomb of today is a fearful weapon.

Adam is the chief character in an allegory in the Bible portraying the erroneous record of creation. He was not a personage of ancient history.

Throughout the centuries since Christ Jesus demonstrated God's healing love to humanity, his followers have been concerned with evangelism, with spreading to all mankind the glad tidings of their Saviour's ministry. The Apostle Paul, writing to Timothy, his co-worker, said ( II Tim.

In "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy are these searching questions ( p. 2 ): "Can we inform the infinite Mind of anything He does not already comprehend? Do we expect to change perfection? Shall we plead for more at the open fount, which is pouring forth more than we accept?" Continuing in the same chapter on Prayer we find ( p.

The giving of a Christian Science treatment is not only a sacred occasion, but a joyous one. What could be more joyous than to be conscious of God as divine Principle and of man as God's precious idea, ever governed, directed, and protected by His loving care, and to see the resultant healing? Christ Jesus at one time sent out seventy disciples to teach and heal.

Through all ages men have tried to approach God by prayer. But to those with a ritualistic concept of worship and a vicarious approach, God has been shrouded in mystery; He has been inexplicable and afar off.

Christ Jesus said, "I proceeded forth and came from God; neither came I of myself, but he sent me" ( John 8:42 ). In boyhood Jesus acknowledged God as his Father.

The teachings of Christian Science reveal the spiritual fact that one may immediately become conscious of God's healing power and presence. These teachings show that actually there are no barriers of time or space that can delay for an instant the healing power of infinite Mind.

What is substance? An intense desire to know and understand God is requisite in order to cognize substance, for God, Spirit, is the only true substance, which is spiritual reality—the opposite of matter. According to a dictionary definition, reality is that which is ultimate, as opposed to what is merely apparent or phenomenal.