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Has not the world today as never before come to regard efficient organization as its greatest need, almost its very lifeblood? Governments strive to prepare for coming events, big business endeavors to make its organization foolproof, and in domestic life a good organizer is a boon to the home. But can it be said that humanity is satisfied with the progress made? Is it not becoming daily more apprehensive as to where modern methods are leading mankind? Some methods of organization would press upon the so-called human mind systems of regimentation where individuality and initiative have less and less opportunity for expression.

" Beloved , now are we the sons of God, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be: but we know that, when he shall appear, we shall be like him; for we shall see him as he is" ( I John 3:2 ). Think of the import of this glorious statement that not yesterday, tomorrow, or sometime in the future, or after so-called death, but right now are we the sons of God.

Mary Baker Eddy says in "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" ( p. 525 ): "Everything good or worthy, God made.

" I Leaned on God, and was safe. " In the paragraph from which this quotation is taken (Message to The Mother Church for 1902, p.

Mary Baker Eddy states in her great textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," published seventy-five years ago ( p. 479 ), "An image of mortal thought, reflected on the retina, is all that the eye beholds.

In "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" Mary Baker Eddy defines "Church" as follows ( p. 583 ): "The structure of Truth and Love; whatever rests upon and proceeds from divine Principle.

Time is the error of age and the ages. Eternity is the forever newness of spiritual man's existence and individuality.

The meeting of Jesus and Nicodemus, the Pharisee and ruler of the Jews, carries with it a deep meaning for all time, for it establishes the scientific fact that man is born of Spirit and not of matter. Nicodemus caught a glimpse of the divine nature of Jesus' teachings, and he recognized to a degree that the miracles which Jesus performed were not done by human power.

" My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?" cried the writer of the twenty-second Psalm in words which have gained great significance to many Christians because of their utterance by the Saviour when on the cross of Calvary. The poignant prayer of the singer of Israel emerges later in the same Psalm with accents of spiritual triumph and praise.

In our times a spiritually-minded woman, Mary Baker Eddy, was guided by God to present to the world Christian Science, the promised Comforter. She gave it in a form which can be readily understood and utilized.