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In the first chapter and on the first page of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" Mary Baker Eddy mentions three essentials for the "Christianization and health of mankind," namely, "prayer, watching, and working. " The entire sentence reads, "Prayer, watching, and working, combined with self-immolation, are God's gracious means for accomplishing whatever has been successfully done for the Christianization and health of mankind.

A College student was awarded a scholarship large enough to pay the tuition fees for his freshman year. The scholarship had to be renewed each year, and the granting of the renewal depended upon the maintenance of good grades.

Rebuilding is a topic of perhaps more general interest today than ever before in human history. For, as a result of war conditions, homes, towns, even countries, must be built up anew materially and spiritually.

That which set the Jews apart from all other nations and tribes was their worship of the one God. In many ways they did not differ from the followers of Baal and Moloch, or the worshipers of the sun and of gold and silver.

" We know that a desire for holiness is requisite in order to gain holiness; but if we desire holiness above all else, we shall sacrifice everything for it. " These words are from page 11 of the Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy.

" The one Ego, the one Mind or Spirit called God, is infinite individuality, which supplies all form and comeliness and which reflects reality and divinity in individual spiritual man and things," writes Mary Baker Eddy on page 281 of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures. " The individuality of man, therefore, emanates from God and expresses the nature of God.

" I Will praise the Lord with my whole heart, in the assembly of the upright, and in the congregation. " So sang the Psalmist in praise and gratitude to God ( Ps.

Omnipotence encounters no opposition. In divine Mind there is no struggle for supremacy.

In these times of struggles and shifting scenes, when national and international upheavals confront mankind, many individuals find themselves mentally and physically in what seems to be a country that is far from the kingdom of heaven. They may be faced with insurmountable personal problems, perhaps connected directly or indirectly with the activities of the war, with family relationships, or with a physical difficulty not yet healed.

When Joshua addressed the tribes of Israel at Shechem, admonishing them to serve God in sincerity and in truth, he said ( Josh. 24:15 ), "Choose you this day whom ye will serve; whether the gods which your fathers served that were on the other side of the flood, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land ye dwell: but as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.