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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.

In the study of Christian Science we learn the unreal nature of sin, sickness, and death—all error. The belief in their reality must be eradicated from our consciousness if we are to be free from physical disability.

Centuries ago, Christ Jesus gave us a great, unchanging truth about the kingdom of God. The Pharisees asked him "when the kingdom of God should come;" and Jesus answered, "The kingdom of God cometh not with observation: neither shall they say, Lo here! or, lo there! for, behold, the kingdom of God is within you.

Today the words "reality" and "realism" are frequently used. The expression, "We must face reality," is often employed by writers and speakers.

One of the beauties of holiness is that it demands discipline and mental alertness of those who are to achieve it. The human family, passing through great tribulation, is in dire need of repeated and convincing demonstration that holiness is attainable through divine Science.

The author shares that we have the right to demonstrate our God-given self-government and experience the boundless freedom which it always brings.