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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.

Christian Science is revealing to human consciousness the fact that good is ever present and illimitable. Thus it is opening to all mankind the way out of limitation.

The writer who said, "Consistency is a paste jewel that only cheap men cherish," turned a neat counterphrase on a well-known saying, but he did so at the expense of a truism, a truism which has been expressed endlessly, but never more powerfully than in Paul's "Jesus Christ the same yesterday, and today, and for ever" ( Hebr. 13:8 ).