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What very good news has recently been carried in the daily press concerning the liberation of thousands from political and economic bondage! The great hope is held that this liberation will be lasting, and that freedom may be enjoyed by all peoples. Liberation, however, is not gained at the point of bayonets or with tanks and guns.

One cannot study and practice Christian Science without bringing a certain order to his thinking, a certain discipline to his life. These are qualities that are valuable in any experience, but are indispensable to effective organization.

Poets , philosophers, and idealists have at times glimpsed a brave new world wherein all men would be free, but they have been powerless to put their philosophy or idealism into concrete action because of their lack of Science. The light of deliverance which the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, Mary Baker Eddy, brought to this age has not yet been measured or given its full value, but because it is the true light it will find its way into every prison house of fear, through the walls of prejudice, materiality, and misery, until their boasted power is found to be only a misconception which the brightness of Truth first uncovers and then destroys.

A Class in naval radio was about to take a final speed test in radio receiving. One of the students, a young Christian Scientist, noticed that many of his classmates seemed nervous and uneasy.

" What was Daniel doing in the lions' den?" the teacher asked a class of tiny tots in a Christian Science Sunday School. "Daniel was building a bark," was a two-and-a-half-year-old boy's quick response.

A Student of Christian Science who had been going through deep waters, which did not seem to recede, preceded the daily study of the Lesson-Sermon by first reading the ninety-first Psalm. One day as she read the first verse, "He that dwelleth in the secret place of the most High shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty," the word "dwelleth" arrested her attention as it had never done before.

So closely allied are the two words "one" and "all" in their metaphysical essence that they can scarcely be considered separately. For instance, Mary Baker Eddy, the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, states in her textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" ( p.

The understanding of Christian Science dispels such fallacies as the belief that human life is like a game of chance, and that whatever comes into one's experience, be it favorable or unfavorable, is in accord with the predetermined plan of his life and an edict of Deity. Reversing such suggestions, Christian Science teaches us that under the government of divine Principle, everything must be in accord with invariable spiritual law, since all that God creates, sanctions, and maintains, expresses perfect harmony and orderliness throughout the infinite cycles of spiritual existence.

During his three years' ministry, Christ Jesus often taught by means of stories or parables. We are told in various places in the Gospel narratives that he was able spiritually to discern the thoughts of his listeners.

In the near future, men now in military service will be seeking positions in business, and business in general will be searching for the right men to fill important positions. How are they to get together? How is the dual goal to be reached? The Principle and rule of Christian Science, as applied in business matters, operates equally well for both employer and employee, for business in its true nature is never one-sided but always reciprocal.