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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.

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.