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The Scriptures reveal, in the first chapter of Genesis, God's spiritual universe, coexistent and coeternal with Him. Following this revelation of divine creation, there is set forth in succeeding chapters its suppositional opposite, a material view of creation.

The desire to be great is planted deeply in mankind. When cherished as a desire for nobility, it can lead to happy experiences.

Do some of us find difficulty in understanding the nothingness of matter and of the human concept of time? Do the calendar and the clock, measuring and limiting time and enthroning matter, dim our vision of eternity? Understanding the nothingness of matter and time is essential in Christian Science, and so my experience in working out this problem may prove helpful. When Mary Baker Eddy, in elucidating her discovery of Christian Science, announced the then revolutionary doctrine of the nothingness of matter and time, her declaration met with instant and almost universal rejection from thinkers, both religious and secular.

Until the advent of Christian Science in one's life, it has been customary to think of oneself primarily as a human being living in a world composed of other human beings and material things, with human events comprising one's experience. At first, therefore, perhaps it seems somewhat startling to read in the writings of Mary Baker Eddy, the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, that man is not a material personality living in a material universe, but that "he is," as Mrs.

There is reasonable hope that the future holds the possibility for the individual to realize some of his deeply cherished ambitions: a home where he may dwell in safety, security in gainful employment, freedom to worship God in the way of his choice, sufficient leisure for normal recreation, and opportunity for progress in his vocation. These are commendable ambitions, and once they are achieved he doubtless will aim at a larger financial return for his efforts, accompanied by a corresponding increase in material possessions and responsibilities.

Steadfastness is the quality of being constant and unswerving. It carries with it a sense of foundational firmness.

In a certain unit of our American armed forces during the present World War there was a young man who for some years had been an earnest student of Christian Science. His bunk mate, however, made frequent boasts of being an atheist.

The office of Reader in a Christian Science church is essentially ministerial. Whether he reads from the sacred Scriptures or from the divinely inspired Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy, the Reader is ministering spiritual food to the congregation.

It was natural for Jesus, with his marvelous spiritual insight and inherent sense of divine justice, to perceive the holy purpose of restoration, and to prove it for the multitudes who came to him for healing and deliverance. Indeed, his entire career was a living proof that God's promises are perpetual and ever at hand to bring a renewal of health, holiness, and harmony.

Among the "Signs of the Times" in the Christian Science Sentinel of February 22, 1941, an item appears from Lausanne, Switzerland, which tells of a church to which, as the bell tolled for evening service, came worshipers from many byways, each bearing a little bronze lamp of very old design. When asked by a traveler why this was done, the reply was: "We have no other way of lighting our church.