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Nowadays an impressive endeavor is being made to safeguard the liberty of men and nations. In the midst of all these plans, one should be well aware that liberty can be permanently secured and confidently enjoyed only as it derives from the Christian concept of existence, the spiritual understanding of God and man.

It is characteristic of our Leader, Mary Baker Eddy, to begin what she said or wrote with a word of encouragement. This is illustrated by the very first words in the textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures.

It may truly be said that the supreme need in the world today, and for most of mankind the greatest desire, is for permanent peace on earth among all nations. This need and desire of the war-weary is in no sense new except that it has a new insistence because of the ever-increasing destructiveness of war.

In the realm of human thinking the search for antidotes for both disease and sin has been long and devious. No sooner has one been found for some specific ill, and its virtues widely advertised, than its failures and sometimes its harmful effects begin to make news.

Matthew's Gospel records that the disciples once failed to heal an epileptic boy whom their Master afterwards healed quickly and easily. His answer to their inquiry as to the reason for that failure placed the responsibility squarely upon unbelief, or lack of faith.

The student of Christian Science entering a college or university has cause to be especially grateful in the knowledge that he has adequate equipment with which to solve all problems that may arise in this new and progressive experience. He knows that as a child of God he is at all times governed by a beneficent God, who will guide his every step and meet his every need.

In the Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," Mary Baker Eddy, the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, makes the following arresting statement ( pp. 218, 219 ): "When we wake to the truth of being, all disease, pain, weakness, weariness, sorrow, sin, death, will be unknown, and the mortal dream will forever cease.

All reasonable people will agree that there is no substance in the figures that move about in our dreams, or in those moving on the cinema screen; also that the events of dreams and the activities of fictional characters are not really happening—that they are all illusion and make-believe. Christian Science teaches us that many of the events of what men call "real life," which we enter when we leave the cinema or when we wake from our dreams, are make-believe too, the illusions that mortal mind is presenting to us day by day, and year by year, yea, even hour by hour; that they are not a bit more real than the dream shadows, the phantoms of memory, or the cinema films.

Parents are often prone to believe that they alone have problems. Many youngsters, however, feel that they too have as troublesome and perplexing ones as any that their elders encounter.

Christ Jesus demonstrated that his spiritual selfhood was the Son of God. But he did not confine this idea of divine sonship to himself alone.