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The Christ, Truth, entering into the experience of mankind, constitutes the only way of salvation from all evil, and is the paramount need of the entire world, since it offers surcease from suffering as well as the solution of every human problem. It lifts men and women from the material, bestial, selfish, narrow, egotistical, and limited beliefs of the human mind into an apprehension of man's true sonship with his Father-Mother God.

Christendom freely acknowledges the primacy and supremacy of God, but equally freely it seems to ignore the practicability of demonstration. Too often passive resignation to the besetments of evil has been the rule, and, disregarding the intrepid examples in the Scriptures culminating in the unparalleled demonstrations of divine presence and power by Christ Jesus, men have placed both effective godliness and oppressive evil in the domain of mystery.

In writing to the Hebrews (chapters 3 and 4) , Paul three times called attention to the words in the ninety-fifth Psalm: "To day if ye will hear his voice, harden not your hearts, as in the provocation, in the day of temptation in the wilderness. " To those who feel that they cannot hear God's voice, as well as to those who have a sense of impaired hearing, these words come to arouse thought and bring assurance of man's indestructible hearing.

The revelation, understanding, and acknowledgment of true selfhood are indispensable to the progressive unfoldment of the student of Christian Science. "God is All-in-all.

Of all the claims of mortal mind which hold humanity in bondage, there is none from which it is in greater need of liberating than the belief of separation. But there is complete liberation from this cruel lie when one awakens to the great truth that God and man are inseparable.

In the first three Gospels and in Paul's first letter to the Corinthians (chapter 11), simple accounts of the Lord's last supper are given. The Master's offering of bread and wine as a symbol of true spiritual substance and divine inspiration became the basis of a ceremony which Christians have observed ever since.

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.