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Rightly directed reasoning is one of the foundation stones of a truly democratic community, from which issue liberty of thought and enlightenment. The word "reason" might be defined as the faculty of intelligence, especially the faculty by which we arrive at necessary truth.

Once upon a time," so the legend runs, certain dissenting influences sought permanently to isolate and to conceal from mankind the "Spirit of Divinity. " According to the fable, the ''Spirit of Divinity" was to be hidden in a place so unapproachably remote, so completely impossible of conjecture, and altogether so utterly beyond human sagacity that no one would ever be able to find it.

In her textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," Mary Baker Eddy, the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, has stated ( pp. 191, 192 ), "Mind, God, sends forth the aroma of Spirit, the atmosphere of intelligence.

The cliff was high and steep, and the path leading upward narrowed to almost nothing near the top. The individual ascending the narrow ledge found himself clawing for a hold on the sheer face of the rock.

Perhaps at no other time in the history of our nation has the necessity for the building of Christian character been more important than it is today. Is it not true that something far greater than mere physical strength and material methods is needed to combat the forces of evil so rampant in the world? Someone may ask.

The peace and tranquillity of mind which men so much desire will be more fully realized as a higher sense of justice is reached in their dealings one with another. The feeling that one has been made the victim of intentional injustice in some business transaction or personal relationship usually disturbs one's serenity of thought, if, indeed, it does not become a lingering torment, continually suggesting that one has been wronged and sometimes the desire for retaliation.

Mary Baker Eddy , the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, tells us ( The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and Miscellany, p. 252 ): "The entire purpose of true education is to make one not only know the truth but live it —to make one enjoy doing right, make one not work in the sunshine and run away in the storm, but work midst clouds of wrong, injustice, envy, hate; and wait on God, the strong deliverer, who will reward righteousness and punish iniquity.

Many an individual in these eventful days is living midst surroundings which offer a radically different environment from that to which he is accustomed. Particularly is this true with those in the armed services, where, of necessity, one is required to live in close and constant association with almost every type of human thought.

The basic teaching of Christian Science is that God, Spirit, is All-in-all, the only Mind, and therefore the Mind of man. Perhaps one of the first things grasped by the beginner in the study of this Science is the fact that man has not a personal, private mind of his own, but, in his real being, is coexistent with and a reflection of the one infinite Mind, God, as sunbeams, individually and collectively, are a reflection of the sun.

A sunday school teacher had found the marginal headings in the Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy, very helpful in studying the various sections of the weekly Lesson-Sermon. One week when the subject for the Lesson was "Truth," a reference on page 295 of the textbook stood out particularly.