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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.

In the eighth chapter of John's Gospel is recorded a scene in which a number of Jesus' countrymen displayed marked hostility to his teachings. In derision they called him a Samaritan and boasted of themselves that they were of the seed of Abraham.

" So the Lord alone did lead him, and there was no strange god with him" ( Deut. 32:12 ).

In large communities much attention has been given during recent years to ways and means by which to minimize the pollution of the atmosphere. In Christian Science we learn that any harmful or disagreeable atmosphere can be eliminated through Christianly scientific measures.

Great fortunes have been spent in the setting up of laboratories, clinics, and foundations bent on searching out the causes of humanity's countless ills; and elaborate remedial measures have been developed for coping with the ills themselves. Nevertheless, a system which commences with material effects, such as atoms, germs, diseases, poverty, unemployment, war, and from these effects attempts to work back to causes, will ever prove futile.

In divine Science progress is the unfoldment of the ideas of divine Mind; it is therefore both spiritual and eternal. Progress, then, can never be measured in terms of materiality.

Except for the self-oblivious love of, Mary Baker Eddy and her undauntable trust in God, followed by the Godreliant faith of a small number of her early students, there would not now be the farflung movement of Truth, the evangelizing, healing activity of Christian Science. Some who heard Mrs.

One July afternoon, as the writer and her family drove along a western desert highway, their attention was drawn to the behavior of a blackbird in the road a short distance ahead. Its wings were stiffly downspread, and the bird wobbled in a diminishing circle.