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" Trust in Truth, and have no other trusts". The writer heard these words when our Leader spoke them from her balcony at Pleasant View (The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and Miscellany, p.

In the Old Testament narrative the children of Israel are sometimes referred to as stiff-necked, disobedient, and stubborn. They were frequently influenced erroneously to worship materiality or to follow after the false gods of the idolatrous nations with which they came into contact.

Only as so-called mortal or carnal mind is put off can God, who is Life, Truth, and Love, be comprehended in Christian Science. As St.

Love as a quality of God is active and practical. It gives all and circulates its own currency.

Mary Baker Eddy's arresting declaration in the Manual of The Mother Church that the prosperity of Christian Science depends largely upon the Lesson-Sermons in the Christian Science Quarterly stirs us with its challenge. She writes ( Art.

" Never was there a more solemn and imperious call than God makes to us all, right here, for fervent devotion and an absolute consecration to the greatest and holiest of all causes," declares our revered Leader, Mary Baker Eddy, on page 177 of "Miscellaneous Writings. " In the next paragraph she follows this declaration with several urgent, soul-searching questions, ending with the query, "Will you give yourselves wholly and irrevocably to the great work of establishing the truth, the gospel, and the Science which are necessary to the salvation of the world from error, sin, disease, and death?" Then she adds, "Answer at once and practically, and answer aright!" This rousing call to Christian Scientists for consecrated, vigorous spiritual activity in behalf of their beloved Cause, which is the divine way of salvation for all mankind, is as applicable this very moment as it was at the time when it was written.

Most human beings are interested in and quickened by the thought of glory. It may be the glory of riches or of some unique prowess and distinct achievement; or perhaps it is the resplendent glory and majesty of kings and states, or maybe the wonder of those rare things of material beauty which defy duplication.

To one who seems bound by disease or sin, limited by lack or loneliness, or trapped by dictatorship or war, it may appear as if a line were drawn between him and the solution of his problems. Perhaps he has struggled with his difficulties so long that this dividing line looms as an impassable barrier.

Everyone at some time has glimpsed the presence of the Christ, Truth, operating in his human experience. It may have been the inspiration of a holy thought bringing him joy, the tender words of a psalm or hymn bringing him comfort, or perhaps the ministrations of a friend supplying a human need.

Much-repeated declarations of truth without a sincere effort to put them into practice tend to be ineffectual. Actually no demonstrable truth ever lacks vitality.