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" The Lord God omnipotent reigneth" ( Rev. 19:6 ).

These are important days for the Christian Scientist. Bombarded from every side with rumors of further war and dissension, intimations of hate and greed, suggestions of sin, sickness, disease, and death, the genuine Christian Scientist is constantly aware of the importance of emphasizing good in his every word and deed and is constantly alert to meet all adverse suggestions with inspiring truths as revealed by Christian Science.

That famous epigram by William Penn, "Men must be governed by God or they will be ruled by tyrants," is a reminder that was never more needed than today. In the light of Christian Science, as discovered by Mary Baker Eddy, we know that the law of God has been rendered demonstrably available to all.

Mary Baker Eddy defines man on page 475 of our textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," in part as "the conscious identity of being as found in Science, in which man is the reflection of God, or Mind, and therefore is eternal; that which has no separate mind from God; that which has not a single quality underived from Deity; that which possesses no life, intelligence, nor creative power of his own, but reflects spiritually all that belongs to his Maker. " Christian Science is the revelation of being.

Young people and those just beginning the study of Christian Science may be grateful and willing to acknowledge the efficacy of God's healing power when physical discomforts have been terminated, but they may feel that to begin to put into practice all the truths taught in Christian Science will cause them to walk a restricted, narrow path, one that will perhaps cause them to lose their present companions. Standing firm and abiding by the rules learned in the study of Christian Science may seem difficult because of the human desire to be loved, to be considered a good sport, or possibly because of the fear of being ridiculed or of being left out of social gatherings which from the point of view of the individual it seems necessary that he attend.

Joy is a quality of God, a spontaneous emanation of Him, which belongs to everyone and can be experienced now and forever. Christian Science teaches that all qualities of good are inherent in the divine Mind and belong to man as God's likeness.

Every power struggle we witness, explains this writer, is based on a false concept of power—power belonging to a person or thing, rather than to God alone. 

As Christian Scientists we often feel that we are walking on holy ground when we pause in humility to view the wisdom and Christly foresight our Leader, Mary Baker Eddy, had in providing the Manual of The Mother Church to guide us in our human affairs. As church members we constantly look to the Manual for guidance in church government.

In "The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and Miscellany" ( p. 60 ) we read that Mary Baker Eddy gave a Bible to a student "as a reward for the best paper on the spiritual significance of the first chapter of Genesis.

Just before being sent overseas during the Second World War, a young Christian Scientist talked to a Christian Science practitioner who had been his Sunday School teacher for several years. In discussing the experience the soldier was facing, the practitioner said to him, "Go wherever your duty calls you and do whatever is humanly necessary, but wherever you are—on a transport, in a bomber, during the midst of a battle—never enter into the illusion that hating, or any other evil, is real.