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THE statesmen of the world are searching for means whereby to cure the misery of the nations. They are experimenting with civic theories, hoping for satisfactory results from untested programs.

To face one's present experience confident of God's loving care and control, and to regard the future in terms of orderly, safe, and fruitful living is the right of everyone. Christian Science, as practical for a child as for an adult, shows the way to gain this attitude.

It was Christ Jesus' great desire that men should know the overflowing fullness of divine Love in order that they might enjoy the plenteousness of Life. He said ( John 10:10 ), "I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly.

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 ).