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With many people the very word destiny gives rise to a feeling of uncertainty and distress. Some resign themselves to accepting what they call their lot, while others attribute to chance, heredity, or fatality the happy or unhappy events which take place.

Before one has progressed very far in the study of Christian Science he is challenged to spiritualize his thought. What does it mean to spiritualize thought? How is it accomplished? Paul in writing to the Philippians said ( 2:5 ), "Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus.

We need never lose sight of the kingdom of heaven, the spiritual revelation of God and man. Christ Jesus never lost sight of it, and he is our Way-shower.

We read in Luke ( 13:11 ) of a woman who "was bowed together, and could in no wise lift up herself. " For eighteen years the disease had persisted, yet Jesus healed her.

One of the greatest problems facing the world today is that of finding a satisfactory solution to the wars and rumors of war that so constantly beset it. Are you and I feeling that as individuals there is little we can do to help solve so complex a problem? Such a temptation—for so it is—might delude us into a state of apathy and helplessness.

Men's faith in a power higher than material sense, a good power guiding and directing human affairs, has brought them comfort and courage, and they have often likened this power to a good shepherd. But, although yearning for this guiding influence, many have not known where to look for it or how to lay hold upon it.

Certainly at no time in the world's history has a greater opportunity been presented for spiritual thinkers to bless and benefit their fellow men, for through Christian Science the redeeming and saving Christ has been revealed. To us has been revealed the demonstrable understanding of God's omnipotence and the possibility of saving mankind from destruction through the power of divine Love.

Mankind is prone to classify individuals and to place them in certain categories. Men often depend on first impressions, form permanent opinions of others, sometimes negative, and adhere to their original classifications.

The Church of Christ, Scientist, is a healing Church. The revelation of Christian Science, which has come to us through our revered Leader, Mary Baker Eddy, has again made practical the healing method so successfully practiced by Christ Jesus, by his disciples, and in a degree by the prophets who preceded our great Master.

" To him that overcometh will I give to eat of the hidden manna, and will give him a white stone, and in the stone a new name written, which no man knoweth saving he that receiveth it" ( Rev. 2:17 ).