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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.

The customs of many people today are the outcome of events recorded centuries ago in the Bible. The practice of commemorating these events keeps alive their memory.

True individuality is without egotism. It is the counterfeit, the false mortal selfhood posing as something that it is not, which cloaks itself in egotism.

In the first chapter of Genesis, which Christian Scientists accept as the account of the real and spiritual creation, we are told that "God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them. " But in the second chapter—the account of the false or counterfeit creation— we find woman separated from man.

Nearly two thousand years ago, on a quiet hillside in old Judea, a little group of thoughtful men rested and listened. Their world was seething with trouble, and these men sought a solution to its many problems.

In mundane affairs the element of time seems a very important factor. It governs very largely the lives and actions of mortals.

In the Acts of the Apostles it is related that Herod, the king, had killed James, one of Jesus' disciples, and taken Peter prisoner. It was planned that "after Easter" he should be brought before the people for trial.

In the midst of an age of materialism, of darkness and superstition, our blessed Master, Christ Jesus, through his teachings and example, gave to his own and succeeding generations the glorious light of a diviner sense of God. His deeds in fulfillment of his words, "I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly," awakened human consciousness to perceive and in some measure to understand the spiritual nature of man as immortal or undying.