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One might perhaps say that there have been almost as many designs for living as there have been people to live them, for everyone has some kind of plan upon which his existence is based, whether the design is sketched out consciously or unconsciously, carefully filled in with detail or roughly indicated by vague lines. Some, indeed, there are who are content to let others design their lives; some drift along in the general thought currents of the day, while others design boldly and try strongly to influence many of their contemporaries' lives for good or evil.

Much has been said recently about postwar planning. Discussions have been directed to the economic adjustments which will follow the long period of war activity, to reconversion, and to the broader phases of the peace plans which will succeed the cessation of hostilities.

Indulgence is a descriptive word in the vocabulary of corporeal sense. Reflection is coincident with spiritual sense.

In the course of his Sermon on the Mount, Christ Jesus said, "If therefore the light that is in thee be darkness, how great is that darkness!" And Shakespeare, that great commentator on human nature, gave the following as part of Polonius' farewell to his son: This above all: to thine own self be true, And it must follow, as the night the day, Thou canst not then be false to any man. Both quotations are arresting: the one a warning; the other a promise.

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In the years during which Mary Baker Eddy was seeking and finding Truth, great revival meetings were being held in this country. Preachers were striving to awaken their congregations to the subtle nature of sin, and were urging a return to godliness and religious fervor.

One of the vital names for God which our beloved Leader, Mary Baker Eddy, has revealed to us, is divine Principle. The word "principle," from a Latin word which means "beginning," is defined as "a source or origin.

The all intelligent principle, God, naturally loves the beauty and perfection of His universe. Because of His intelligent appreciation of good, He must love the God likeness of man, and this relationship is indicated by the name Father-Mother, which is used as a synonym for God by Mary Baker Eddy.

Imperative characteristics are those which are positive and binding. They are the indispensable, indwelling requirements which cannot be shunned or shirked by the Christian Scientist.

The divine Mind—and there is no other real Mind—expresses itself in ideas which are at once comprehensible to the Mind conceiving them. These ideas are complete, so that no imperfection exists in the spiritual creation because of omission, deficiency, or oversight.