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For centuries men have carried on a ceaseless search for means of obtaining health and peace. Then why are sin and disease still apparent and strife between men and nations not abated? Because many have sought emancipation from these evils largely through matter or material means and by prayer to an "unknown god.

We glorify God when we catch a glimpse of His splendor, beauty, and power and live so as to express His qualities. We go from glory to glory as we catch clearer glimpses of reality.

It is not always realized that the words gratitude and grace have the same Latin root. One of the dictionary definitions for "grace" is in part "a free gift of God to man.

Every Christian Scientist is learning the wonderful lesson that the determining power of his human experience always lies in his own hands. What does this mean? It means that a suggestion of evil never comes that cannot be annulled.

" The time for thinkers has come," writes Mary Baker Eddy in "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" ( Pref. , p.

In common with most people the writer was brought up to believe that disease is a physical condition of the material body. In consequence of this false teaching he was subject to many forms of fear and sickness throughout childhood, and until he later became interested in the teachings of Mary Baker Eddy, the revelator of Truth to this age.

On his last journey back to Jerusalem, Paul visited the city of Troas, and on the first day of the week, we read in the Acts of the Apostles ( 20:6-12 ), he preached in an upper room "even till break of day. " In the midst of this discourse a young man named Eutychus, whose presence in that upper room might indicate that he was a searcher for Christianity, fell from the window and was taken up dead.

Through the understanding of Christian Science one often gains new light on a familiar and loved Bible story enabling him to solve some present-day problem. Recently the writer found fresh inspiration while pondering Jesus' parable of the woman who lost one of her ten pieces of silver in her house, as recorded in the Gospel of Luke (15:8, 9).

When we start out on a journey, we usually do so with the expectation of going all the way. Nevertheless, in human experience, obstacles, diversions, unforeseen circumstances, lack of determination, may prevent us from reaching our destination.

Obedience is recognized as an essential factor in promoting harmony and maintaining law and order in society. We are aware of the necessity for willing submission to authority and have witnessed the effects of obedience in our homes, in schools, in business, and in the armed forces.