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It is a common occurrence in these times for men, women, and children to find that the usual routine of their everyday experiences has been disrupted. As men and women enter the armed forces or find opportunities to serve in defense activities, great changes take place in their mode of living.

In the first chapter of Genesis we read, "In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. " Since the eternality of God and His creation admits of no beginning or ending, we may say: In the eternal, God reveals the heaven and the earth, and He sees everything that He makes and pronounces it good.

When Paul asked that significant question, ''Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you?" he used the word ''temple" in the same sense that Christ Jesus employed it when "he spake of the temple of his body. " In primitive times a temple was not a building, but a place of observation whence an unobstructed view of the heavens could be had.

The earnest seeker in Christian Science is looking for the divine remedy which is based on definite knowledge of God as Principle. This knowledge is of itself authority and power.

It is the commendable desire of every Christian Science church organization to dedicate its edifice as soon as possible after its erection. As each member accepts his individual responsibility to work intelligently, and pray fervently, for guidance in the unfoldment of the human footsteps to be taken, there will come into his consciousness a fuller understanding of infinite supply.

The food question is frequently referred to today as the world's number one problem. While stupendous efforts are being made to supply the food required by our armed forces and civilians, our hearts reach out in compassionate sympathy and eager desire to satisfy the millions of hungry people in pillaged lands.

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.