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Retirement should be a progressive, not a retrogressive, period. Men and women who have withdrawn from daily toil in their usual occupation, business, or profession may and should look forward to continuing achievement, usefulness, and happiness.

The man whom God knows and cherishes has a glorious history. This history, however, is spiritual, not material.

Our ability truly to conceive God determines the measure of our experience of heaven, or harmony. Instead of accepting the limited and corporeal sense of God and man we must be prepared to grasp the purely spiritual and incorporeal sense of God and therefore of man in His image and likeness.

Thousands of individuals today are questioning the validity of material methods, which they realize have not solved humanity's problems. For centuries reformers and philanthropists have endeavored to alleviate human suffering through material methods.

In one of his parables, recorded in the fifteenth chapter of Luke, Jesus tells of a younger son who demanded his share of the patrimony and left his father's home to go to a far country. There he "wasted his substance with riotous living," and eventually returned impoverished.

Questions as to the why or wherefore of the seeming presence of evil never occur to one who has learned in Christian Science that God created all, including man in His own likeness—created all good and perfect in accordance with His own nature. As the student of Christian Science lifts his thought above a false material sense of existence to spiritual realization of the omnipotence and omnipresence of God divine Mind, reigning eternally in ceaseless harmony, he sees as invalid any reason for the presence of even a claim of error.

The belief that someone has treated us unjustly, or wronged us, can cause much unhappiness until we learn in Christian Science to reverse this error with the truth of being and so eliminate hurt feelings from our experience. We may long to forgive the erring one and love him, but believe it humanly impossible.

A Christian Science treatment is a very natural thing, as natural as correcting a mistake in arithmetic. It is the use of the power of Truth to correct a condition that is not true.

Demonstration is a word that quickens the attention and hope of those beginning the study of Christian Science. It begets inspiration and courage in the heart of one reaching out to God to feel that at last he has found that whereby he can prove for himself the Word of God.

In the Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," our beloved Leader, Mary Baker Eddy, tells us ( p. 390 ), "It is our ignorance of God, the divine Principle, which produces apparent discord, and the right understanding of Him restores harmony.