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In the present extremity of war and sacrifice, people are turning more than ever before to God to find an answer to their problems. The force of events often awakens in mortals a demand for a clearer light of reasoning as blind faith ceases to satisfy the thoughtful, and they find they can no longer reconcile the abominations of evil with the will of God.

We are introduced to Hannah the Prophetess in the opening verses of I Samuel. Hannah was childless.

"By faith Noah, being warned of God of things not seen as yet, moved with fear, prepared an ark to the saving of his house. " In the detailed account of this incident, as set forth in the book of Genesis, we read that "Noah walked with God," and that he "found grace in the eyes of the Lord.

God is everywhere; therefore, God is infinite. This is a profound statement that must arrest the earnest attention of every student of the Bible.

" O make me glad for every scalding tear, For hope deferred, ingratitude, disdain! Wait, and love more for every hate, and fear No ill,—since God is good, and loss is gain. " (Poems by Mary Baker Eddy, p.

A Christian Scientist , who for many years had proved for herself and others the power of divine Mind to dissolve human discords, found herself overcome by an illness that seemed to resist the application of Truth. Praying earnestly for enlightenment, she was led to open the textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy, at page 176, where she read: "When the mechanism of the human mind gives place to the divine Mind, selfishness and sin, disease and death, will lose their foothold.

Because peace is the expression of God, divine Mind, it partakes of the nature of God, His omniscience, omnipresence, omnipotence. Moreover, it is active and not passive.

The healing works of Christ Jesus bear witness to man's ability to see the eternal, perfect nature of man, and to understand and prove Biblical promises. The transforming power of real knowledge and true vision is maintained in individual experience through receptivity to the teaching of Jesus, who said, "If a man keep my saying, he shall never see death.

Christian Science provides v a broad and powerful basis for thought in connection with post-war planning. Generally speaking, economic and social nostrums, humanly conceived, have the common fault of not containing within themselves the seed of success.

Today we are all out to win a victory which we trust will end wars forever. Our first step is to know what it is we are fighting.