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It is a matter of record in the Bible that the children of Israel were at the borders of the promised land in somewhat over a year's time after their departure from Egypt, but it was forty years in all before their "little ones," now become the elders, entered it. The tarrying appears to have been not of God's doing but mankind's own sense of taking plenty of time to progress, for in Deuteronomy we have this statement: "So ye abode in Kadesh many days, according unto the days that ye abode there.

The call to arms is a call to action. The armor of the Christian Scientist is Truth, with which he defends himself from the attacks of error.

In the divine Mind, purpose and achievement are concurrent. Five times in the first chapter of Genesis a statement beginning with the words "And God said" concludes with the declaration, "and it was so.

Throughout the Scriptures good and evil are often metaphorically represented by light and darkness. It is clear that where light is, darkness is not; so it is encouraging to remember that the first command of God recorded in the Bible was, "Let there be light.

According to Christian Science reality is defined by the nature of God. The Supreme Being, therefore, is not merely to be known about, as though He were far removed from man.

Christian Science is daily establishing freedom for those who had believed themselves helpless victims of hereditary taints. Tracing their supine resignation and its dire results to materialistic theories, this Science presents the subject of inheritance redemptively.

The enigmatical and self-contradictory explanations set forth in textbooks on the natural sciences sometimes arouse in the student a strong suspicion that they do not really explain at all. Thus until recently it was assumed in physics that the surrounding and omnipenetrating substance called ether was many times as rigid as steel, but that material objects could move through it without any friction whatever! And in physiology and psychology it is still taught that we obtain our knowledge by means of wires called nerves, which run through tiny holes into a dark box called a skull, there to be transformed, by a process which nobody can explain, into thoughts and feelings called smell, taste, touch, hearing, and sight.

While Sarah is known to us chiefly as the wife of the pioneer patriarch Abraham, there are sufficient references to her in the Biblical narrative to suggest something of her own character and characteristics. Like her husband, Sarah (or Sarai as she was originally called) came from Ur of the Chaldees, which excavations show to have been a large and thriving but idolatrous city, where the worship of the moon-god was supreme.

The attainment to "the kingdom of God," which Jesus said "is within you," has always been the goal of Christianity. But the nature and location of this kingdom have been subjects of mere aspiration or speculation by those who looked for it elsewhere, because they have not understood the teachings of Jesus.

Several years ago a student of Christian Science was struggling with a seemingly tenacious phase of error. A friend who knew of the circumstances wrote to the student a very loving and helpful letter quoting Jesus' words in his parable of the pounds or talents, "Occupy till I come.