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Spiritual understanding brings to light the essence of all things real; it is the consciousness of the kingdom of God in all its glory, without beginning and without end. This spiritual consciousness is man's only true present and eternal state of being.

I have a friend who lives not so far from here. He is a large man, well over six feet—big fellow in body, mind, and soul.

We are waging a fight for spiritual freedom as did our Pilgrim Fathers who settled on the shores of New England, except that today we are thinking in terms of world freedom, thinking in terms of individual spiritual freedom for all mankind. This is the basic freedom which underlies the Four Freedoms set forth in the Atlantic Charter.

The trend of human thought was very clear to Mary Baker Eddy. In the textbook of Christian Science, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," she writes ( p.

Uppermost in the thought of every patriot and lover of liberty is the desire to help in turning back the tide of aggression which threatens the world today. There is a simple, effective way in which every individual can lessen the sum total of erroneous beliefs which constitute the tide of evil.

On page 254 of the Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy, appears the comforting statement, "When we wait patiently on God and seek Truth righteously, He directs our path. " Are there some who, in reading this inspired truth, have failed to detect the keynote of power and healing therein? Are they perhaps entertaining the mistaken sense that patience indicates only a long and arduous wait for some uncertain reward in the distant future? If so, then little has been discerned to inspire hope and nerve present endeavor.

Christian Science presents to the one who is sick or harassed with a seemingly insurmountable difficulty a key to freedom, a power that can turn all his troubles into peace and settled joy. Everyone, if he will, can prove its healing truth for himself.

In the light of Christian Science, instant acceptance and sudden dismissal are analogous. They go hand in hand.

One sometimes hears an outstanding individual referred to as the man of the hour. Here, it is felt, has arisen the long-awaited person who can discern the implications of the world's complex problems and has the insight and wisdom to handle them, being thus able to avert a possible or impending crisis.

The contemporaries of Columbus looked at a curved earth and called it flat. But that did not make it flat.