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WHERE is good? This may seem an elementary question to students of Christian Science and others who have learned in some degree that God is good, and that He is everywhere. Yet do not some of us often find ourselves looking for good, virtually chasing it, as if it were to be found in some places but not in others —not, of all places, in us? Jesus declared ( Luke 17:21 ), "Neither shall they say, Lo here! or, lo there! for, behold, the kingdom of God is within you.

The battalion column wound its way into camp on the completion of an arduous march. Weary and dusty, the men plodded on, desiring only a meal and rest.

One of the writer's university professors frequently admonished his students to do some worthy thing each day, even though disinclined to do so, and to continue in the doing until the disinclination was mastered. "This," he said, "is self-discipline.

One of the many reasons why Christian Science continues to attract an ever-increasing number of thoughtful men and women into its ranks is that its teachings are both logical and practical. Mystery, mysticism, or impractical idealism no longer interests mankind as it once did, nor does it meet the human yearning for a better understanding of life and its meaning.

Most newcomers to Christian Science who begin their study with an open and receptive thought are impressed with the healing and redemptive nature of its teaching. Step by step the beauty, richness, and value of its revelations are unfolded, and the Holy Scriptures, upon which Christian Science is based, cease to be a closed book.

Events in the life of the Hebrew prophet Elisha, viewed in the light of Christian Science, furnish helpful examples of the timeless appearing of the Christ in human consciousness, instances of the unfoldment in thought of the spiritual identity of man and his God-bestowed dominion. It will be recalled that, although he recognized the importance of Elijah's first appearance to him while he was plowing, Elisha delayed a little his acceptance of this call to follow the prophet.

Striking the keynote for all world citizens, Mary Baker Eddy says in the Preface to "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" ( p. vii ), "The time for thinkers has come.

Errors like straws upon the surface flow; He who would search for pearls, must dive below. Thus Dryden points out that in order to avoid the shallows of superficial judgment one must go below the surface to find true values.

Not long ago, after race riots had broken out in a great metropolitan city, a group of public-spirited citizens banded together and, in the interests of greater racial and religious harmony, planned a "Tolerance Week. " The writer could not help but wish, however, that it had been called "Love Your Neighbor Week.

Our beloved Leader, Mary Baker Eddy, writes in "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" ( pp. 307, 308 ): "Above error's awful din, blackness, and chaos, the voice of Truth still calls: 'Adam, where art thou? Consciousness, where art thou? Art thou dwelling in the belief that mind is in matter, and that evil is mind, or art thou in the living faith that there is and can be but one God, and keeping His commandment?' " What are mortals believing? Is it not too often that which mortal mind would fain have them believe? The earnest student of Christian Science, however, knows better than to do this, for he has learned and proved in some measure that only that which is of God is present or real.