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Christian Science brings to every field of human endeavor a better and improved concept of activity. This is true for the student and scholar as well as the businessman, the artist, the laborer, and the homemaker.

God as a subject of conversation ought to be one that is easy, natural, and frequent. Picture two commuters on the way home from business relating unembarrassedly in conversational tones that might be overheard what God had done for them that day.

" What you need is a man with you. " This remark was made to a woman whom a few friends were seeing off on a journey to another country about three thousand miles away.

When Moses led the children of Israel out of Egypt, he brought them to a land of promise, full of good soil and easy harvests, with rivers and green places, and he foresaw that they might become idle and self-satisfied in their prosperity. Do you remember how he warned them of this temptation and reminded them that it was God who had brought them out of difficulties and dangers and had given them prosperity? He warned them that the temptation would come to make them think that they of themselves had done something, and to make them say in their hearts ( Deut.

Once when Jesus was instructing the people, he urged them to labor not for the meat which would perish, but for that meat which endures even to everlasting life. His hearers showed interest, but before they would fully believe, they demanded a sign or proof.

Through the many incidents of answered prayer recorded in the Old and New Testaments we see that prayer is not and cannot be crystallized, but is impelled and characterized by the nature or need of a present situation or condition of thought. It is always a sincere and active seeking of good.

Mary Baker Eddy, the revered Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, never lost sight of the universal purpose of her God-appointed mission. It was for all mankind that she labored.

MANY years ago a proud Pharisee was journeying toward the ancient city of Damascus with authority from the high priest to bind and bring to Jerusalem for persecution and death all those he could find of the followers of the Master, Christ Jesus. It is related that suddenly a great light appeared and he fell to the ground and heard the voice of the Christ, Truth.

IN the fourth chapter of Matthew's Gospel we are informed that Christ Jesus was led into the wilderness to be tempted of the devil. The temptations came to him in different forms, but fundamentally they were one temptation—a temptation to believe in other minds, other gods, other powers than the one omnipotent Mind, which is God.

ALL human discord stems from the belief that there are two opposite powers, good and evil. But Christian Science teaches that God, good, is All-in-all, while all that claims to be evil is but ignorance of this divine fact.