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All through history there have been the restless, the dissatisfied, as well as the progressive, who have pushed on to new frontiers and to new worlds to conquer. Since the days of Jesus, no pioneer in the realm of the spiritually mental has opened up such vistas of the unexplored, such new possibilities of conquest, as has Mary Baker Eddy.

What are we doing with today's opportunity? A blunt question this; but with turmoil, disaster, unhappiness, unrest, and war running rampant over the earth, it is one which each Christian Scientist may well ask himself. Recently a Christian Science practitioner was thinking about an account of a major military engagement as reported in The Christian Science Monitor, and asked himself how he would appraise such a story of conflict if it came to him as a report from a patient.

During his ministry in northern Israel, the prophet Elisha had occasion at times to pause at the little village of Shunem, which lies on rising ground at the eastern end of the plain of Esdraelon. Moreover, on each successive visit he was fed a light repast by one whom our Common Version significantly describes as "a great woman" ( II Kings 4:8 ).

From the depths of his boundless affection for all, Jesus prayed, "That they all may be one; as thou, Father, art in me, and I in thee, that they also may be one in us. " It was in this oneness of being that he saw the greatest good, and it is this oneness of being, this entirety of good, that Christian Science is unfolding universally today.

Mary Baker Eddy , the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, through her textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," has unlocked the door to the deeper meaning of the Bible. In clarifying hitherto faintly understood teachings of Holy Writ, the author of Science and Health leads her student, through Bible precedent and precept, unerringly to the sublime fact of man's immortality.

" Whatsoever God doeth, it shall be for ever: nothing can be put to it, nor any thing taken from it.

Because the world has believed that good consists largely of material possessions and resources owned, to a great extent, by certain favored persons, groups, and nations, and has believed this supply of good to be limited, some peoples and nations have sought to seize from others, by force of arms, what they want of the world's goods, thus precipitating a titanic struggle for control and possession of the earth and its resources. When the true nature of good is discerned, and seen to consist of the infinite and exhaustless heritage of spiritual ideas universally available to all, there will no longer exist any cause or basis for lack, covetousness, or strife, and the real foundation for enduring peace and abundance will have been permanently laid.

In the dislocations of a wartime economy numerous individuals have changed from congenial vocations to unfamiliar and perhaps monotonous or hazardous tasks. Christian Scientists who are called upon to make these trying adjustments will not need the mesmeric appeal and support of popular catchwords and slogans, but will turn instead to their knowledge of the truth of being, and, in its practical application to present needs, gain a higher concept of employment.

Christ Jesus recognized and demonstrated in his life the nature of the spiritual, perfect man. He constantly identified himself with God, good.

" In the order of Science, in which the Principle is above what it reflects, all is one grand concord. " So writes Mary Baker Eddy on page 240 of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures.