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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.

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.