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One meaning of the word birth is "beginning. " How stimulating is the thought of a new beginning, a fresh start! Each morning is a reminder of God's great gift of eternal freshness and newness.

All the uncertainties of existence stem from the mistaken mortal beliefs that God bestows both good and evil and that there is a power apart from Him. Habakkuk says of God ( 1:13 ), "Thou art of purer eyes than to behold evil, and canst not look on iniquity.

The works of Christ Jesus, so miraculous from the human standpoint, were the natural result of his understanding of God's allness, of God's unerring direction and control of the universe, including man. His perception of the perfection, the completeness, and the continuity of the Father's spiritual creation brought results which were as immediate as they were amazing.

Christian Science teaches that error is unreal and proves that its seeming reality is readily destroyed by the operation of divine Truth in the individual human thought. The alert student, therefore, will never neglect the salutary and liberating task of examining his thinking for whatever may be unlike God, in order that it may be seen and destroyed.

Christian Science is definitely awakening Christendom to the great fact that God in His infinite goodness neither creates, permits, nor sanctions evil. It is becoming more and more generally recognized that any attempt to justify the existence of evil—sin, discord, disease, and death —is to dishonor Him and to impugn His wisdom, goodness, justice, and mercy.

Election of Readers and officers in a branch Church of Christ, Scientist, gives one an opportunity to apply the teachings of Christian Science in church affairs. New members, and some older ones, may feel disturbed because they do not know the membership and therefore do not know for whom they should vote.

In Jesus' time a Roman legion consisted of between five and six thousand foot soldiers, together with complements of other arms. In a day when gunpowder, TNT, and split atoms were unheard of this was indeed a mighty display of force.

The Gospel according to Matthew relates one of the most significant episodes in the earthly career of our great Way-shower, Christ Jesus. This episode was not only important to the progress of Jesus' ministry, but is also vastly important to anyone who calls himself a Christian, since the truth brought to light then is fundamental to Christianity.

Does one, no matter what the considerations of self-interest, refuse to lower his standards of excellence? If so, then it can be said that the world has need of him. The greatest contributors to the world's good are those men and women who bring to it the true idea of God and who hold to the highest mode of thought and action of which they are capable.

The Bible tells us that God is infinite, All; hence One. Mankind generally accepts the teaching of the infinitude of God, but does not apply the word all in its full meaning.