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One of the erroneous beliefs of presentday theology is that Jesus atoned for the sins of the world to appease the wrath of God and that through this one act of atonement all men are saved. Many sects emphasize that the shedding of the blood on the cross by Jesus is the all-important and sufficient fact of atonement.

What do we really know about man's origin and background? This is a question well worth pondering. Materialists, tirelessly seeking to mitigate the world's discords, are probing for their cause into the background, past history, or origin of mortal man.

A "Career" originally meant a "racecourse," and hence came to mean a progressive course of action of an individual or a nation. Absolutely speaking, the course of action, or career, of man is to express the Divine Being, for man is the reflection of Life, Truth, and Love.

To the writer, as to many others, the following statement from the Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy, has been a source of much enlightenment ( p. 162 ): "Christian Science acts as an alterative, neutralizing error with Truth.

We who are its grateful beneficiaries need prayerfully to remind ourselves from time to time that the now world-wide Christian Science movement began when a devout Christian woman, believed to be fatally injured, opened her Bible at the New Testament and read anew the account of Jesus' healing of a palsied man. Concluding in logical fashion that the eternal power which had healed the man must still be available to all, she reverently prayed for spiritual enlightenment.

A Christian Science practitioner when asked the question, "What about human good; is it all untrue?" referred to Jesus' words, "There is none good but one, that is, God" ( Matt. 19:17 ).

To the Christian Scientist, good is natural, evil unnatural. This is because he knows that an infinitely good God could have created only that which is good, expressive of His own being.

About two thousand years ago a very humble and very great man traveled up and down the dusty highways and byways of ancient Judah teaching, preaching, and healing the sick. Mighty empires have since risen and fallen; conquerors have come and gone; strange and erudite philosophies have caught the peoples' imagination, held it for a time, and then been discarded; but with imperishable glory Christ Jesus' teachings have shone through the ages and have retained and maintained their authority and power.

While uncounted thousands of men and women are finding in Christian Science the satisfying end of their search for the living God, that search goes on for many millions of others who have not yet turned to the simple spiritual facts of their divine birthright as revealed in the Bible and the Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy. It is to establish in their own consciousness more and more evidence of God's presence and, incidentally, to provide assurance of that presence for all who are still groping in the wilderness of materialism that grateful, consecrated Christian Scientists are happily practicing their religion and producing its healing effects in ever-increasing measure today.

" THE real jurisdiction of the world is in Mind, controlling every effect and recognizing all causation as vested in divine Mind. " Thus on page 379 of the Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," Mary Baker Eddy indicates where cause, effect, and government really originate.