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The teaching of Christian Science, that matter is unreal, often puzzles and sometimes antagonizes those who are but slightly acquainted with the correct teaching of this Science. This difficulty arises from the common habit of mortals to regard everything tangible in their environment as composed of matter, so that, with many people, the word "matter" has come to mean the substance of all the objects included in their daily experience.

It is recorded of Jesus, "He taught them as one having authority, and not as the scribes. " Authority! The word rings out its own meaning.

Recently , The Christian Science Monitor published a series of articles entitled, "The World We Want. " Contributors were men and women distinguished by intellectual and perceptive ability, technical knowledge, and wide practical experience.

"Know thyself, and God will supply the wisdom and the occasion for a victory over evil," says Mary Baker Eddy, the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, on page 571 of the textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures. " Because the Master knew himself, knew he was the Son of God, he could say to his disciples: "These things I have spoken unto you, that in me ye might have peace.

In the present world struggle to overthrow injustice and tyranny it may at times appear that those fighting for freedom and right are without a sufficient supply of material weapons to gain the victory at once. Some nineteen hundred years ago Paul wrote to the Corinthians a satisfying answer to this problem in the words, "For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but mighty through God to the pulling down of strong holds; casting down imaginations, and every high thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ.

Centuries ago Jesus of Nazareth demonstrated the Christ as God's idea, revealing the immediate remedy for every human" need. Mary Baker Eddy, who discovered the Science of Spirit, the only substance, and shared her divinely inspired knowledge in her writings, says (The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and Miscellany,   p.

That man lives by divine decree is evidenced in the fact that the three great periods of spiritual revelation in human history—the moral, the Christian, and the scientific— have been the eras in which God unveiled His law to mankind. This points to the fact that the real man, God's image, expresses law and embodies it, for true manhood has appeared only as law has unfolded.

The term "protestantism" is today taking on a far more vital and practical significance. In fact, a new and purer concept of protestantism was born in the latter half of the nineteenth century when, through the discovery of Christian Science by Mary Baker Eddy, a clearer spiritual light was shed upon the Scriptures.

According to the early usage of the English language, to ward was to keep watch over, to hold in safety, to protect. A warden is one who keeps guard, one who is a watchman, or according to the dictionaries, "specifically a gate keeper.

In this time of world turbulence Christians, generally, are turning with renewed interest to the study of the words and works of Christ Jesus. The search is inspired by the hope and expectancy that in the stress of events so rapidly unfolding there may be gained some new light, some new remedy for the ills of humanity.