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We need solid convictions. Convictions based on truth, on spiritual understanding of God, of God's man and God's universe.

The incorporeal and divine nature of God as ever-present Love has been revealed to the world through God's two witnesses, Christ Jesus, the exemplar of Love, and Christian Science, the law of Love, discovered in 1866 by Mary Baker Eddy. Christian Science, which is the complete and final revelation of the truth Jesus demonstrated, teaches that infinite Love, Mind, or Spirit, is one, the one perfect and eternal Principle or cause of all real being, the one universal Father and Mother of man.

Generally speaking, there are two bases of endeavor, the spiritual and the material, and the right choice of these determines true happiness, health, and harmony. Looking down the vistas of material existence, one sees sin, disease, and misery confronting mortals at every turn.

Conversing with his disciples shortly after the transfiguration, Christ Jesus gave them a valuable recipe for harmonious living. He said to them, as recorded in Mark (9:50) , "Have salt in yourselves, and have peace one with another.

Mankind have always sought various means for safety. Many have looked wholly to matter for it; others have found it in God's gracious metaphysics.

One who owns a store for selling goods is not satisfied to stock his shelves well and just let them stay that way. His prosperity depends on a good turnover; otherwise there is no profit.

Christ Jesus knew how to love his enemies; moreover, he knew that the peace for which humanity yearns must come through the individual's daily effort to overcome enmity wherever it is encountered. He was the most successful peacemaker the world has ever known, and he did not bring peace through appeasing evil; rather did he destroy evil through his reflection of divine Love.

World upheavals today among nations impel the conclusion that extreme nationalism must be abandoned before the world can experience peace. It is becoming more and more apparent that in the narrowest sense nationalism is synonymous with selfishness, pride, and hate.

Christian Science, by revealing man as the reflection of God, thus makes known a most important fact of divine metaphysics. The word reflection means the exact image or likeness of anything mirrored.

"To produce a mighty book you must choose a mighty theme," wrote Herman Melville. This might be paraphrased to read, "To live a mighty life, you must choose a mighty theme.