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HAVE you ever been tempted to believe that a change in your material circumstances or surroundings would solve your problems for you, or at least make it easier for you to solve them for yourself? If you have been so tempted, you have had much company. Even Jacob, whose spiritual growth finally earned for him the title of Israel, or the prince of God, was tempted to believe that he must escape because his brother Esau was angry with him.

GOOD management is essential in human affairs. Whether it be the conduct of business, the direction of school or social activities, the guidance of family matters, or control of one's personal affairs, good management is a necessity.

WHEN thought is lifted to the windows of heaven, divine harmony, there may be grasped at least a glimpse of the perfection which Mary Baker Eddy states underlies reality. If one closes the door of thought on material belief, shutting out the clamor of personal sense, and stands on mental tiptoe, expectant, eager, there will be unfolded from the heart of divinity a view that will abide in eternal remembrance.

Every college student knows that there are certain required subjects in any curriculum. While the acquiring of a formal education or academic degree is a worthwhile endeavor, students of Christian Science sometimes find that they are not exempted from taking certain subjects which are wholly opposed to their religious views.

Mary Baker Eddy states the basis of Christian Science treatment where she writes in her textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" ( p. 259 ), "The Christlike understanding of scientific being and divine healing includes a perfect Principle and idea,—perfect God and perfect man,—as the basis of thought and demonstration.

Every individual exists in reality as an idea in Mind, each equally endowed with all that God has and of equal importance to the all-loving Father-Mother God. This glorious fact becomes clearer and finds an ever larger measure of expression in the affairs of humanity as Christian Science compels the limited material sense of being to give place to the immortal facts regarding God's creation.

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.