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An inward conviction that freedom is definitely linked with righteousness and its primal quality love, and is unattainable without them, led the writer to consult the Bible and "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy on this subject. Today freedom is again being challenged, and it is good to make sure that our ideas on this tremendous issue are sound and clear and include a genuine conviction of its spiritual quality.

Peter glimpsed but faintly the true idea of Love when he asked Jesus ( Matt. 18:21 ), "Lord, how oft shall my brother sin against me, and I forgive him? till seven times?" The Master's reply made it clear that Peter, placing a limit on forgiveness, did not fully understand the infinite all of Love.

Perhaps at some time in our experience we have heard a friend or acquaintance say with some measure of pride, "You know I am a perfectionist. " This announcement is intended to convey the information that the one who places himself in this category is a very meticulous person, demanding perfection in every detail of human experience.

Understanding Christian Science in a degree sufficient to heal requires humble, honest, trustful, and fervent application of thought. It does not call for merely intellectual struggle or attainment.

Nothing is more conclusive in Christian teaching and experience than that the human self must be renounced and put off in order that the real man, the divine idea, may appear. To the inquiring Nicodemus, Jesus replied ( John 3:7 ), "Ye must be born again.

How likely is it that we shall, any one of us, accomplish the good results we hope and work for? Of course the answer depends largely on whether our hope is wise or unwise and on our proper use of the right means of accomplishment. We can safely trust our desires to the direction of divine Principle, perfect Love, whose sole purpose for man is fulfillment.

It is natural that we should expect Christian Science to be practical and helpful in all phases of our maturing experience. Allegiance to its teachings will prepare one unerringly for important opportunities both within and beyond the college gates, opportunities awaiting those equipped to fulfill them.

During the years when the first Christian lived as a teacher and healer of men in the Galilean country, the sins and sufferings of mankind haunted his footsteps. As the Master journeyed from countryside to city, meeting with fishermen, priests, lawyers, money-changers, civilians, and soldiers, the evils of the times clamored for redress.

The outstanding fact about Christian Science is that it is a religion which is demonstrable, that it proves its thesis by actual works of healing both of body and of mind. If Christian Science were incapable of proof, then it would be a mere theoretical doctrine, denuded of any vitalizing power to regenerate mankind.

To illustrate the truths he taught, Christ Jesus in his parables used many homely figures of speech which made his mission more understandable to those who hungered for his message. His references to wheat are varied, and no doubt from the hills around Galilee he could easily point to fields of grain in various stages of development.