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The Phoenicians, famed throughout the ancient world as hardy mariners, inhabited a strip of land bordering the Mediterranean and situated to the west and northwest of Galilee. Galilee itself was shunned by the orthodox Jews as virtually Gentile territory, and while Phoenicia was ordinarily viewed with still greater contempt, the Bible tells us of two faithful women, the one in the Old Testament and the other in the New, who, undaunted by their pagan environment, sought and obtained healing for their children.

Many young people today are called upon to serve in the armed forces of their country. Often this means separation from home and loved ones, or the interruption of a promising college or business career.

Increasingly it is recognized that the determining factor in human experience is one's own thinking. Shakespeare said, "There is nothing either good or bad.

When Job was struggling to replace his former belief of health, substance, and friendship, which had proved to be but a house built on sand, with a right understanding of true values, as bestowed of God, his friend Elihu, who sought to turn him from human to spiritual concepts, saw that the need was for "a messenger with him, an interpreter, one among a thousand, to shew unto man his uprightness. " This might be called the keynote for healing practice.

In Jesus' wilderness experience, all the subtle devices of the tempter were employed to persuade him that the divine power could be used for himself personally. The Master, detecting the artful philosophy of the serpent, cloaked with the letter of Scriptural texts, summarily silenced the lies with the inspired Word of the Scriptures.

There are those who feel today, if only they could be present at the peace table, how grateful they would be to contribute their part to the establishment and promotion of true peace. In one sense their desire is already answered, for though it may not be possible for them to be personally present, their thought nevertheless can be a very active and vital aid.

The word "determination" is defined by one dictionary authority as, "Direction or tendency to a certain end. " To maintain at all times and under all circumstances the Christlike perception that is conscious only of the perfect, sinless, spiritual man, God-created and Godgoverned, is the "certain end," or goal, of every earnest student of Christian Science.

When Jesus taught his disciples to pray, ''Thy will be done in earth, as it is in heaven," he gave to the world a key that would open the door of human consciousness to the kingdom of heaven. God's will is law, the law of good, the law of divine Mind, of eternal Life, of inexhaustible Love, wholly beneficent, wholly blissful.

One of the many inherent desires prevalent in the thoughts of mortals is to possess; usually it is the longing for something outside one's present experience. In the desire to possess, one's motives may not always be above reproach.

In her writings, Mary Baker Eddy, the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, refers to her church in two ways. On occasions she calls it the church militant; in the Church Manual and elsewhere, speaking of the spiritual verity, she calls it the church triumphant.