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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.

When the parables of the master Christian are studied in the light of Christian Science, fresh and inspiring views of their profoundly practical value are unfolded. A student who had been meditating upon the parable of the lilies, with its teaching of self-forgetfulness, its healing of the thought anxious about progress and supply, suddenly noted that he had been dwelling almost exclusively upon the beauty of the bloom, comparing it to the lovely result he so earnestly desired in his own experience, whereas Jesus' first injunction is to "consider the lilies of the field, how they grow.

Have you ever asked yourself: Why am I here? Is life worth living? What is my reason for existing? When momentous questions such as these present themselves to Christian Scientists, they turn to the Bible and to the writings of our beloved Leader, Mary Baker Eddy, for an answer. Christian Scientists being followers of Christ Jesus, his reason for being is their reason too.

As used in connection with the philosophy of government, the terms "democracy" and "democratic" refer to a government in which the authority and right to govern are recognized as vested, either directly or through chosen representatives, in the people themselves. True democracy is the highest form of human government and keeps open the way for thought to find that God alone governs man.

Through faith in God, the patriarch Abraham, when he was called of God to leave his country and go into a strange land, obeyed. Faith, relying upon an understood Principle, unfolds the power and protection of Spirit.

What fun to watch children in their grotesque masks playing about at Halloween! Weeks ahead the tiny tots look forward to this day when they can don these disguises representing man and beast and go about from house to house suppressing giggles that would all too soon reveal the child behind the mask. Have we not all watched the children troop into the corner shop and look over a table of masks? Peals of laughter fill the room as they peer through the funny faces at each other.

" Obeying the divine Principle which you profess to understand and love, demonstrates Truth. Never absent from your post, never off guard, never ill-humored, never unready to work for God,—is obedience; being 'faithful over a few things.

In spite of the fact that scarcely a family in the world has been untouched by the war, it is still absolutely true that peace, not war, is the perpetual reality of being. There is no war, no fighting or discord in infinite Love.