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Everything in the material world appears to have two sides, a good side and an evil one, a right side and a wrong one. This contradictory evidence has its origin in the myth of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil as recorded in the second chapter of Genesis.

In the first chapter of the Gospel of St. John we read: "In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.

In the parable of the prodigal son, given in the fifteenth chapter of Luke's Gospel, are these significant words: "When he came to himself. " We frequently hear the thought expressed.

Right-Thinking individuals and nations are grateful for the cessation of hostilities, but they long for the enduring, spiritual peace that can be gained only when God is recognized as universal Love and His will is "done in earth, as it is in heaven. " God's will is that we acknowledge Him as the universal Father of men —regardless of race or creed—and that we recognize and demonstrate the brotherhood of man as a basic reality of spiritual existence.

Centuries ago there was a business-man named Simon, who with his partners owned and operated an essential commercial enterprise. These men were in the fishing business.

We are wont to regard those Christian Scientists who were contemporaries of Mary Baker Eddy as pioneers with her in the establishment of the Christian Science movement. While it is true that Mrs.

When we study the Gospel stories of the career of Jesus, we quickly come to the conclusion that here was a man who was always master of the situation. If we are watching and working to follow in his steps, we long to emulate his dauntless dominion.

Such is the power of the recognition of man's inherent goodness that, even when glimpsed through the veil of materialism, it started a train of thought which led to revolutionary political ideals and an upheaval in the arts. But the eighteenth century philosophy of the perfectibility of man gave no hint of the unchanging basis of spiritual perfection, and consequently its effects were subject to human beliefs of perversion and reaction.

A member of the armed forces was standing on the deck of a transport watching the magnificence of an equatorial sunset when these words of our Leader's came to his thought: "The Christian Scientist is alone with his own being and with the reality of things" ( Message to The Mother Church for 1901 by Mary Baker Eddy, p. 20 ).

Since the dawn of history, leaders and kings have given their people songs, songs of praise and honor to God, and songs inspiring men to greater achievement and triumph. Moses gave many songs to the children of Israel during their wilderness wanderings, reminding them to be thankful to God for His marvelous works and tender care.