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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.

It sometimes seems as though the members of the human race had almost made an occupation of looking up to certain chosen ones, whom they deem superior to themselves, and looking down on the remainder. A truly Christlike person dislikes being regarded as an object of worship or adoration.

In the midst of persecution John, the Revelator, saw "the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down from God out of heaven. " This new Jerusalem is defined in part on page 592 of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy as, "Divine Science; the spiritual facts and harmony of the universe.

" To those leaning on the sustaining infinite, to-day is big with blessings. " This is the merciful message that Christian Science brings to humanity on the first page of the Preface to its textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy.

In 1908 a new blessing came to the world in the appearing of The Christian Science Monitor . The Monitor has made its way successfully in spite of the many prophecies, especially from the journalistic world, that a newspaper with its high Christian ideals and purpose would never be a success.

A Dictionary definition of "standard" is, in part, "that which is set up and established by authority as a rule for the measure of .

An unwavering conviction that victory for Truth is inevitable is a necessity in spiritual warfare. It gives one moral courage.

Hosea admonished the Israelites to break up their fallow ground, that mental state which, if left uncultivated and unproductive of spiritual activity, brings forth only weeds and rubbish. This admonition was pronounced some five centuries before Christ Jesus, and today we find public speakers and high ecclesiastical authorities repeating the message.