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Although mankind has been educated to believe that mortals are physical beings, living in a material world and subject to laws of limitation, the teaching of Mary Baker Eddy shows that actually mortals are materially mental; that as such it is possible for them to learn in Christian Science the facts of spiritual existence; and that at last mortal consciousness itself will yield to the allness of divine Mind, God, and cease to be an obstructing factor. To recognize the mental nature of all that seems to be material, and then to recognize Mind's dominion over belief or mentality, is to take an important step on the road to health, happiness, and the accomplishment of any worthful enterprise or purpose.

During the present world conflict, people in all walks of life are pausing to pray for guidance and help and wisdom. Referring to the beloved Master, Luke tells us, "And he spake a parable unto them to this end, that men ought always to pray, and not to faint.

In "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" (p. 337) our Leader, Mary Baker Eddy, gives us this statement: "Eternal things (verities) are God's thoughts as they exist in the spiritual realm of the real.

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.