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Matthew's Gospel records that the disciples once failed to heal an epileptic boy whom their Master afterwards healed quickly and easily. His answer to their inquiry as to the reason for that failure placed the responsibility squarely upon unbelief, or lack of faith.

The student of Christian Science entering a college or university has cause to be especially grateful in the knowledge that he has adequate equipment with which to solve all problems that may arise in this new and progressive experience. He knows that as a child of God he is at all times governed by a beneficent God, who will guide his every step and meet his every need.

In the Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," Mary Baker Eddy, the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, makes the following arresting statement ( pp. 218, 219 ): "When we wake to the truth of being, all disease, pain, weakness, weariness, sorrow, sin, death, will be unknown, and the mortal dream will forever cease.

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.