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In the description of the burning bush recorded in Exodus we are told of Moses' receiving an important message from God, so important and so sacred that Moses, to indicate his reverence for it, removed his shoes. When God told him to lead the children of Israel out of Egyptian bondage, Moses, thinking of himself as a mortal, felt the task an impossible one for him to accomplish.

God is mindful of man because man is generically the full and perfect expression of Mind. Man is the essential expression of God's being, His likeness, manifesting eternally all His divine qualities.

" This wisdom have I seen also under the sun, and it seemed great unto me: there was a little city, and few men within it; and there came a great king against it, and besieged it, and built great bulwarks against it: now there was found in it a poor wise man, and he by his wisdom delivered the city; yet no man remembered that same poor man. " This simple narrative, related in the ninth chapter of Ecclesiastes, has profound significance to the student of Christian Science.

Promotion and progress are desired by almost everyone. True promotion, as understood in Christian Science, is spiritual advancement.

The basic teaching of the Bible regarding the genesis of man is that God created man in His image and likeness, and beheld the work of His creative power as "very good. " Whenever humanity contemplates itself as it appears to be—a material creation, sometimes beautiful and good, but just as often ugly and evil—and attempts to harmonize what the Bible teaches with the testimony of material sense, it is struck with the futility of its endeavor.

The world is always in need of honest men and women. Mary Baker Eddy, the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, says in "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" ( p.

If the question were put, What is the greatest desire common to all peoples? the reply would no doubt be, Happiness. In spite of this, the longing of mankind too often remains unsatisfied, and nothing seems so elusive and transitory as a happy and tranquil state of mind.

During a discussion on a recent radio program a clergyman mentioned the great influence which Christian Science has had on Protestant religions through its teaching in regard to sin. Later the clergyman explained to the writer that what he had in mind was the influence which this teaching has had on Protestant preaching, resulting in the disappearance of what he called "the hell-fire" variety of sermons and in a greater emphasis on the doctrine of God as Love.

Why should we long for what another person has? The reasonable answer is that we think we lack the needful things of life or believe that something is missing that would make our joy complete. Christian Science teaches that all that we need —health, wealth, beauty, companionship —is always available through the realization that man as the reflection of God, coexistent with the Mind that is the source of all true supply, has all he needs every moment.

A student of Christian Science who felt weighed down by a physical problem began one morning the study of the Lesson-Sermon, which included the account of Jesus' three temptations. As she read of the second temptation, in which the devil set Jesus on a pinnacle of the temple and said to him ( Matt.