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The nature of true education has long been a favorite topic of discussion among writers, educators, and philosophers. Faced with the crises of an atomic age, present-day teachers have realized that factual education is not sufficient.

The annual meeting of a Christian Science pupils' association is not merely an event in time; it is a spiritual experience. Established by Mary Baker Eddy and functioning under the sacred provisions which she gives in the Manual of The Mother Church, the yearly gathering of the pupils of the association of an authorized teacher of Christian Science illustrates the perpetual renewing of spiritual inspiration.

Considered from the standpoint of Christian Science, dualism means belief in the reality of both good and evil, Spirit and matter, divine Mind and material mentality. This error of dualism would have us continue to believe that man's existence is at present material, but that through the process of human betterment it will one day become spiritual.

When a branch Church of Christ, Scientist, has not yet dedicated its edifice, its members naturally look forward to this happy experience. The dedication ceremony does not take place until their church is entirely free from financial indebtedness.

Mary Baker Eddy in her book "Miscellaneous Writings" refers to supply and demand as a law of God and says that under this law supply always meets demand (see page 45). This law is universal in scope, and it is as readily applicable to the claims of financial lack and limitation as it is to the healing of moral and physical ills.

We are living in momentous times, in a period of unrest, of upheaval—in an age when there is a crumbling away of beliefs and habits which for centuries have held sway over humanity. Faith in matter, in material thinking, and in material existence is gradually disappearing.

In the Bible we read of Elijah ( I Kings 19:9, 11 ): "He came thither unto a cave, and lodged there; and, behold, the word of the Lord came to him, .

In Christian Science we learn that there are actually no dead-end roads, no insurmountable barriers, no walls of partition. This absolute statement of truth can be proved now as in Scriptural times.

Let the designation "law" be applied to any phase of worldy existence, and mankind is prone to accept it as immutable. A dictionary defines "immutable" as "unchangeable; invariable"; yet only in a very few instances, such as in the field of mathematics, does one find law even remotely approaching immutability.

The ancient Biblical pronouncement that Adam should "till the ground from whence he was taken" ( Gen. 3:23 ) has often been associated through the centuries with the toil of one's hands.