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" Academics of the right sort are requisite. Observation, invention, study, and original thought are expansive and should promote the growth of mortal mind out of itself, out of all that is mortal.

Conviction can only follow understanding. Spiritual understanding of the allness of God and of man as His image and likeness, as revealed in Christian Science, convinces us of the truth of being.

There is a belief among mortals that capabilities and talents are unequally allotted to mankind by a beneficent but not always impartial creator. St.

Mankind may well rejoice in the revelation of Christian Science that evil of whatever name or nature is unreal, an illusion of mortal sense and not the truth of being. This fact, however, remains to be individually demonstrated.

The contagion of evil is one of mortal mind's inventions. While its phases are varied, each one is entirely false and needs to be exposed as nothingness by immortal Truth's radiant, inextinguishable light.

In China, before the infiltration of Western culture and habits, it was customary to engage doctors for a given period of time in an effort to secure protection from sickness and death. In "History of Chinese Medicine" by Wong and Wu, it is related that it was not uncommon for the wealthier Chinese families to hire six or even more medical practitioners on this periodic basis.

In times of moral and economic crises, nations look to their womenfolk as the upholders of standards. Men going down into mines, fighting on battlefields, or catching the morning bus for the office often carry with them a mental picture of a loved woman who represents to them the qualities for which they are striving.

Each one by earnest study may gain something from the healing works of Christ Jesus, as recorded in the Bible, to meet his special needs. Being all-embracing in scope, the healing works cannot be narrowly interpreted, but should be seen as the effect of the application of an understanding of infinite divine Love to meet the needs of mankind.

As each year the Christmas season passes, many may exclaim, Oh, if we could only have the spirit of Christmas on every day of the year! Through God's great gift to this age of the Christ Science, or Christian Science, mankind is receiving the good tidings of a continuous, eternal Christmas. While we gratefully commemorate at Christmas time the birth of Jesus our Way-shower and his life of practical demonstration of the Christ, obedience to his command that we do the works which he did is the only meaningful celebration of his unique career.

In Paul's first epistle to the church at Corinth we find this arresting statement ( 15:45 ): "And so it is written, The first man Adam was made a living soul; the last Adam was made a quickening spirit. " Mary Baker Eddy gives an enlightening explanation of this verse on page 186 of her "Miscellaneous Writings," where she states: "In the creation of Adam from dust,—in which Soul is supposed to enter the embryo-man after his birth,—we see the material self-constituted belief of the Jews as referred to by St.