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The Lord's Prayer, as found in the sixth chapter of Matthew's Gospel, is one of the strongest statements of truth in the Holy Scriptures, and when spiritually understood it is a specific treatment for all the ills of the world today. It is a direct refutation of the pretenses of error which have been voiced to the world by the enemies of democracy.

Many centuries ago there was a man who had suffered many persecutions, many hardships, many vicissitudes, much unkind treatment. However, he did not allow these things to embitter him or cast him down, but used them as opportunities to lift him higher, to attain more of gracious magnanimity and true nobility.

There is no more uplifting experience than that of quiet meditation on the love of God. Everyone knows something of love in its human interpretation, and there are few who have not enjoyed the sweetness of companionship, the love and care of human parentage, the trustful relationship of brother or sister, the devotion of a loved friend.

An old man and a young boy trudged up a mountainside. The lad knew that they were going up the mount to offer a sacrifice to their God; but.

Radiant with its message of Life, the resurrection reveals the power and glory of the divine nature. While all Christendom acknowledges that the earthly mission of Christ Jesus was to show mankind the pathway to eternal life, human thought has been darkened by its belief that resurrection and the spiritual concept of immortal man could be realized only through death and sometimes only by an elected few.

Now that victory in Europe and Asia has been attained and those responsible for making war are being brought to trial, it is well that, in the midst of the gratitude and relief which are quite naturally felt, we should consider what victory really means to us. Humanly speaking, there is far more to evil's claims than that which has been made manifest in the evil doings of a few misguided nations.

This apostle has been given several titles. He is known as "the disciple whom Jesus loved," as "John the Divine" and as the "Apostle of Love.

Good is the natural state of man made in God's likeness. The realization of this fact brings harmony into human experience.

In the sixth chapter of II Kings is given the account of how a certain host of enemies of Elisha surrounded him in the village of Dothan "both with horses and chariots" to capture him. His servant Gehazi was very much frightened, and in desperation asked, "Alas, my master! how shall we do?" To Gehazi the situation surely must have seemed hopeless, but Elisha calmly said, "Fear not: for they that be with us are more than they that be with them.

The practice of Christian Science proves the wondrous spiritual facts of universal harmony, and does this by means of a fixed Principle and given rules. The Principle, or First Cause, is divine Love, God, and the rules of this divine Principle are demonstrated in Christian Science practice.