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" Knowing that Soul and its attributes were forever manifested through man," writes our beloved Leader, Mary Baker Eddy, in "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" ( p. 210 ), "the Master healed the sick, gave sight to the blind, hearing to the deaf, feet to the lame, thus bringing to light the scientific action of the divine Mind on human minds and bodies and giving a better understanding of Soul and salvation.

Almost everyone has at some time awakened in the darkness which precedes the dawn. Sometimes the chirping of a little bird is heard, heralding the songs of other birds joyfully announcing the beginning of a new day.

In this age of startling discoveries and inventions, men are becoming more readily receptive of revolutionary scientific truths. Radio, aviation, and other developments of a freer, broader concept of existence are paving the way to a more universal acceptance of the greatest of all discoveries, the Science of Life.

In one of the parables by which he illustrated his teachings, Jesus described a sower who sowed "good seed" in his field. When the wheat came up, it was found that tares were growing with it, and the man's servants questioned from whence the tares had come.

Freedom belongs to man. It is one of his inevitable possessions, because he is the likeness of God.

In the early days of Christianity it was customary for the disciples and followers of Jesus to go from place to place preaching, healing, and teaching. On one such occasion Paul, who had come to Athens, addressed his listeners in these words ( Acts 17:22, 23 ): "I perceive that in all things ye are too superstitious.

After hearing a testimony at a Wednesday evening meeting in a Church of Christ, Scientist, a friend said to the writer, "Fancy being able to use Christian Science for such a mundane thing as income tax!" The fact is, of course, that if there were a single problem of our so-called human existence which could not be resolved by the application of Christian Science, it would not be Science. Science is and must be universal and capable of being universally applied, irrespective of time, place, subject, or object.

Thinking people desire to meet and help others meet postwar problems wisely and successfully. But in order to lead others in the right path, one's own vision must be clear.

When mortal man delves into material annals for his family tree, he finds organic selfhood starting from various sources. In the first fictitious account of mortal existence, as given in Genesis, mortal man is evolved from dust.

There is probably no one in the world today whose happiness at some time has not seemed to fluctuate with changing circumstances. Most of us think that we have good reason for feeling less than completely satisfied.