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" Everyone today is seeking for a place of refuge or safety. The fear of destruction seems to have touched the whole world, and people the world over are crying, "None of us are safe anywhere.

Man is now, always has been, and always will be in the kingdom of God. Why? Because it is impossible for him to be elsewhere.

However terrible or tremendous the evidence of hate, havoc, and war before the material senses these days, it is entirely illusory. This accumulated evidence of suffering and cruelty has no more basis in fact than any single case of pain or discord—and the healing of many of these through a practical understanding of God is attested in the weekly and monthly publications issued by The Christian Science Publishing Society, as well as at the midweek testimony meetings held by Christian Science churches and societies.

The sense of mortal existence continually places one in situations of bewilderment and confusion. Either there is a surfeit of things, friends, and money, or there is a lack of things, friends, and opportunity so extreme that one is sometimes driven to a state of self-pity, discouragement, and loneliness.

Truth is ever active, never static, nor can they be static who would follow it. Of all its followers it requires progress and advancement.

The loving guidance and tender care of the shepherd for the flock are set forth in many Bible stories and verses. The great Master chose the same figure to illustrate some of his most important teachings: "I am the good shepherd, and know my sheep, and am known of mine.

In our prayers we may helpfully consider three important phases: affirmation, pleading, and praise. These are readily discernible in a careful study of the Lord's Prayer, together with its spiritual interpretation, as given by Mary Baker Eddy on pages 16 and 17 of the Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures.

God's purpose for each child of His care is one of progressive unfoldment, increased spirituality, an ever-enlarging manifestation of strength and power, and an improved sense of vitality, grace, and dominion. Man reflects Life unending, ever present, infinite, here and now.

There is much said today about demands—demands upon our time, our purses, our affections. So frequent and imperative are these demands that often it is difficult to keep up with them, and, what is far more important, to evaluate them properly.

In contemplating the present world conflict and its concomitant events, all Christian people quite properly hold in prospect the time when war will cease. They yearn for that to prevail which is right and just for all mankind, a world-wide permanent peace to be enjoyed by the people of all nations.