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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.

On the lawn of the public library of a New England city stands a large stone statue. Several hundred boys used to pass this building on their way to school, and in cold weather it was quite the thing to hit the face of the statue with a snowball.

Many years ago a ship lay tossing on a stormy sea. The storm increased as the winds arose and the night grew darker.

On page 368 of the Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," Mary Baker Eddy, the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, writes: "Because matter has no consciousness or Ego, it cannot act: its conditions are illusions, and these false conditions are the source of all seeming sickness. " By this and similar declarations, Mrs.

The absolute nature of God's government of man and the universe is clearly stated throughout the writings of the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, Mary Baker Eddy. A cogent statement of hers, relative to what is known as the actual business of government in the world today, reads as follows (Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, p.