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Just prior to Thanksgiving Day the writer's husband with two friends went on a short cruise to some nearby islands in his thirty-foot cabin cruiser. Although the writer had been invited to go along, her desire to attend the Thanksgiving Day service in a Church of Christ, Scientist, was greater than her desire to go on the pleasure cruise; so she had declined the invitation.

Recently, in commenting on present-day efforts to curb gambling, a supposedly intelligent individual said to the writer: "I cannot see why people should be so concerned about the matter. The tendency to gamble is in the thought of most everybody.

Whether people take up the study of Christian Science for healing, for comfort, or in their quest for truth, they generally become interested in it for its religious teaching and the spiritual uplift it gives; and they seek to understand it better in order to apply it themselves to daily problems. As they become convinced that it is indeed the Science of Life, they wish to share it with others; and later they have the desire to become members of a Church of Christ, Scientist, and thus aid in furthering its beneficent work.

Church has somewhat the same relationship to edifice that home has to house, and as the work of homemaking is continuous, so church building continues after the edifice is built and paid for. The living Church is shown forth by a church membership in which Love continues to be brought out more and more in human lives.

One of the most profound and enlightening statements made by the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, Mary Baker Eddy, is found in her work, "Retrospection and Introspection," where she says ( p. 67 ), "The first iniquitous manifestation of sin was a finity.

" Behold , I have set before thee an open door, and no man can shut it. " So writes the Revelator (3:8).

If through his faith one is not to an increasing extent finding liberation from his fears and enslaving beliefs of sin and physical infirmity, then he should frankly ask himself the question, "What is wrong with my faith?" It is related in the seventeenth chapter of the Gospel according to St. Matthew that a certain man who had a lunatic child came to Jesus and knelt before him, and in that same hour Jesus cured the boy.

Does someone desire to know the whereabouts of a loved one reported missing in action? In Isaiah (45:11) there is a statement which leaves no doubt as to where man's true position and condition are to be sought: "Ask me [God] of things to come concerning my sons. " And in "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" Mary Baker Eddy states ( p.

It is related in the fourth chapter of John's Gospel that Jesus once sat down at Jacob's well and asked for a drink from a woman of Samaria who had come there to draw water. When she demanded to know why he made this request of her, in spite of the strained relations between the Jews and the Samaritans, our Master used the occasion to awaken her thought to the higher meaning of life and refreshment.

The Bible's pervading theme is the allness of God, the fact that there is none beside Him. Jeremiah states it thus ( 23: 24 ): "Do not I fill heaven and earth? saith the Lord.