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One views with amazement the many inventions which today are presented to the world in an attempt to create greater ease in human living. Human efficiency has in a degree banished both time and space.

" To this end was I born, and for this cause came I into the world, that I should bear witness unto the truth" ( John 18:37 ). This superb answer of Christ Jesus' to Pilate's question, "Art thou a king?" set forth the great spiritual objective for all Christendom.

The  Christian Scientist has accepted, according to the measure of his understanding the fact that life is spiritual, which means, in effect, that all the experiences of real existence are in divine consciousness, or Mind. This is a perfectly reasonable proposition, but it runs counter to the general opinions of the world's unenlightened thought.

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 Men and women who have withdrawn from daily toil in their usual occupation, business, or profession may and should look forward to continuing achievement, usefulness, and happiness.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.