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Does not every person, whether he is of humble or haughty lineage, desire to reign over the kingdom of his own life experience? However, men often find this desire thwarted by various phases of materialistic belief. They become dominated by disease, sin, limitations, seemingly insurmountable obstacles.

From the first unanimous decision to organize as a branch of The Mother Church, The First Church of Christ, Scientist, in Boston, on through every phase of church building, countless opportunities are provided for harmonious, consecrated working together of the church members. Each forward move should bring out a greater sense of unity and brotherly love, as well as a keener appreciation of the importance of each member's contribution.

Truth is its own defense. Nothing can ever cause it to cease being true; nothing can diminish by one degree its strength or its immortality.

In the Bible we read ( Hebr. 11:6 ), "He that cometh to God must believe that he is.

In the fourth chapter of his Gospel, Matthew relates the wilderness experience of Christ Jesus, in which he was tempted of the devil three times. It is both interesting and instructive to observe that Jesus quickly established in consciousness the divine order, thereby ruling the evil suggestion out of order.

Christian Science brings to humanity the joyous message that all may here and now so understand and demonstrate divine power as to triumph over the forces of evil. Did not the Psalmist exhort us ( Ps.

Christian Science teaches absolute and exclusive reliance on God. When one begins the study of Christian Science and feels its beneficial effects, he may wonder why in the past he has left God out of consideration so much of the time.

Those who sought out Jesus in Jerusalem because he had dared to heal on the Sabbath day may well have been astounded at the calm demeanor of the man they had come to persecute and kill. Facing them fearlessly, Jesus proclaimed his oneness, or unity, with the Father and added these significant words ( John 5:39 ): "Search the scriptures; for in them ye think ye have eternal life: and they are they which testify of me.

The evidence of the indestructibility of man presented in the life of the Master has a special significance for the age in which we live. "Why was it," one may ask, "that after his crucifixion Jesus could appear to his disciples and present to Thomas, who doubted his reappearance, the proof that he had lost none of his essential being?" As all could see, he was himself, the very self whom they had known.

Often when wonders are heard of or seen we show surprise, for wonders are supposed to be something unusual or strange. To speak of wonders as lawful takes them out of the strange and unusual class and makes them conformable to accepted standards, duly authorized or established by law.