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DO we remember often enough that God always has available for man every treasure of good? Sometimes when the darkness of materiality seems very real to us, we are tempted to believe that lack, unhappiness, and sickness are real and natural, and that good is unnatural and miraculous. The fact is that the infinite vastness of God's goodness is ever available to all.

Divine Love lived is the royal way to health, happiness, and success. Knowing this, Christ Jesus brought to the world a scientific and demonstrable system of Christly works which gave substance and life to his beautiful and comforting words.

Gathered in Concord, New Hampshire, on July 4, 1897, some twenty-five hundred members of The First Church of Christ, Scientist, in Boston, Massachusetts, listened to an address by Mary Baker Eddy, the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science. Keynoting her remarks to the day, Mrs.

It is natural to have a desire for good, and since God is good, is this not really a desire to do God's will? Much of humanity has an innate sense of a will higher than its own, one wholly good, wholly separate and apart from the utterly unreliable, unpredictable force called the human will. However, unless one knows what God's will is and how to avail himself of it, he is quite likely to become thwarted and frustrated by the various eccentricities and demands of the human will.

How many mortals realize that God's law is a divine energy inexorably grinding to dust, nothingness, the vast range of material beliefs that have afflicted mankind? Some may say, "can this be true when we see around us calamity, sickness, and the constant threat of world upheaval?" The divine energy is ever at work, wearing away the adamant of material belief and its lies of sin, disease, discord, and death, thus lifting humanity into higher realms of thought and action. Through the practice of Christian Science innumerable people have been blessed by the scientific application of God's law, have learned a better way of life, and have found relief from misery, doubt and fear, sickness and poverty.

Blessedness is the natural state of man; it is the result of man's oneness, or unity, with God, good; it is holiness reflected from divine Mind. Personal condemnation amounts to a declaration of the existence of evil and a denial of God, good, as One and All-in-all.

Christian Scientists are privileged to see man as he really is, the perfect expression of divine Mind. Man is spiritual, not material.

In the Holy Bible we may read one of God's promises to His children ( Jer. 3:15 ): "I will give you pastors according to mine heart, which shall feed you with knowledge and understanding.

Of utmost importance to each one of us is the simple question, "What am I?" The answer to this question relates vitally to one's conduct, to his health, and to his demonstration of the harmony of true being. The orthodox belief that man is a miserable sinner acts as a millstone about the necks of those who accept it, and therefore they play out the part of suffering mortals.

" The robes of Spirit are 'white and glistering,' like the raiment of Christ. Even in this world, therefore, 'let thy garments be always white.