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As we go the round of daily affairs we are often tempted to believe that if certain individuals or circumstances were different, all would be well. But this is not so.

Students of Christian Science are daily and progressively demonstrating the great truth to which Jesus gave utterance when he said ( John 16:15 ), "All things that the Father hath are mine," for Christian Science reveals that God does give all good to all His children. As this truth is accepted, it brings to human experience an adequate and proper sense of supply here and now.

How important it is for one to bring to completion every right endeavor to the glorification of God! The unfinished piece of art, the uncertain business deal, or the incomplete treatment is insufficient evidence of reality and does not bear witness to the fact that God is perfect and whole in His manifestation. In order that God's kingdom be seen on earth, there must be perfect realization of completeness, harmony, and continuity of goodness.

As far as we know, the founders and early leaders of the Hebrew nation, such as Abraham, Jacob, Joseph, and Moses, had no writings to turn to for help and spiritual inspiration, although the Bible itself calls Genesis the book of Moses; and the first five books of the Bible, known as the Pentateuch, are also sometimes referred to as the book of Moses. These great Hebrew characters must have lived close to God, for it is recorded that God talked with Abraham and with Moses.

Regardless of the size, weight, and shape of its body in relation to its wingspread, the bumblebee flies. It goes about its work free, unconcerned with any aerodynamic theory.

Through the early annals of the Old Testament, from the days of Moses to the time of David, runs the story of Amalek and his tribe, persistent enemies of Israel. Mighty were the spiritual wrestlings of the prophets in their conflict with the materialistic Amalek, and pointed are their experiences when compared with ours today.

The story has been told of a little child who often sought to join a group of older girls and boys playing nearby in a fenced yard. Invariably her efforts to open the gate to the yard and enter drew this taunt from some one of the children: "Who says you can come in here?" For a long time the child permitted this unloving and unjust decree to deprive her of the joy of playing with the others.

In the heart of many people there is an innate yearning to realize man's inseparable unity with the Father. The homesickness of the prodigal son illustrates this human yearning, which eventually tires of belief in material selfhood and rises to journey toward a full understanding of the real man.

Defining the basis of the radical confidence in God which Christian Science inspires, Mary Baker Eddy writes in the textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" ( p. 368 ), "The confidence inspired by Science lies in the fact that Truth is real and error is unreal.

He who has the right idea of overcoming understands that overcoming involves not only doing good, but also being the man that in reality he already is. He therefore does not endeavor to change something real.