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In the conflict that is shaking the world, the church is being looked to for comfort and support. Already men have found that the spiritual qualities of faith in God and tolerance toward others need to be cultivated in both individual and national relationships.

The tendency of the human mind to try to bolster us with half-truths is too little recognized. How often when a man is discouraged or believes he is failing or is the victim of overwork or some other discordant condition, he glosses it over with some optimistic platitude instead of knowing the dynamic truth that the argument is a lie about his real self, the son of God! He says to himself: "Now, slow down.

Students of Christian Science are familiar with the fact that their textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy, is based on the Scriptures, and therefore should be studied in connection with the Bible. Mrs.

A Rich young man once asked Jesus what he should do to have eternal life. He told the Master that he had kept the Commandments from his youth, and inquired ( Matt.

As the members of the Church of Christ, Scientist, which was established by Mary Baker Eddy, strive to further the growth of their church, they may well remember their Leader's words, "We can unite with this church only as we are newborn of Spirit, as we reach the Life which is Truth and the Truth which is Life by bringing forth the fruits of Love,—casting out error and healing the sick" (Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, p. 35 ).

No truth in divine Science is more fundamental and more important to understand and demonstrate in the present stage of human progress than that of man's eternal individuality. Mary Baker Eddy writes in "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" ( p.

" Ho , every one that thirsteth, come ye to the waters, and he that hath no money; come ye, buy, and eat; yea, come, buy wine and milk without money and without price" ( Isa. 55:1 ).

Mary Baker Eddy, in delivering her Message to The Mother Church for 1902, wrote ( p. 10 ): "When the human mind is advancing above itself towards the Divine, it is subjugating the body, subduing matter, taking steps outward and upwards.

A Beautiful account of the redemption of an individual, Zaccheus by name, is recorded in the nineteenth chapter of Luke. This man desired to see Jesus, but by reason of the crowds which thronged the Master he could not "because he was little of stature.

Because circumstances which affect society in general have a bearing on individual happiness and well-being, mortals are sometimes led to look for some human prediction which will enable them to foresee impending events. They attempt to foretell the future by means of occult processes such as spiritualism, astrology, witchcraft, and other superstitious methods.