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It has been truly said that mere acceptance of Christian Science as a religion does not make individuals Christian Scientists, for to be a true Christian Scientist one must gather his manna fresh daily. This is a statement that becomes clearer to students with every advancing step.

A man recently asked a Christian Science practitioner for help. He was suffering from a condition which had troubled him for a long time, and had grown so much worse that he walked with difficulty.

CHRISTIAN SCIENTISTS derive strength and courage from the realization that God is Mind. They learn from the practice of Christian Science that happiness and success appear in their lives and experiences as a result of spiritual thinking.

Spiritual revelation and right reasoning unite in the acceptance of the Biblical assertion that man is made "in the image of God. " Christian Science, declaring God to be infinite Mind, Life, Truth, Love, shows that what is true of God is true of man, for the likeness cannot be at variance with the original.

TO the scientific Christian the times hold a special challenge. Courage, spiritual strength, wisdom, serious effort are called for and are abundantly at hand.

A student of Christian Science once attended the Sunday morning church service while he was laboring under a sense of depression and manifesting the symptoms of a severe physical ailment. When the service began, Hymn No.

God's will is joy, peace, and the highest good for all His children; but sometimes one's human experiences seem so severe and the problems so numerous that happiness and peace appear to be the exception instead of the rule. This, however, is only a seeming, the phenomenon of a false mortal sense of life.

Many members of The Mother Church, The First Church of Christ, Scientist, in Boston, Massachusetts, are today practicing Christian Science in the business world. Not infrequently the question may recur to some of them, Am I entirely obedient to the teaching of Mary Baker Eddy, the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, and especially to her By-Law in the Church Manual, Article XXX, Section 7 , which reads in part: "I recommend that each member of this Church shall strive to demonstrate by his or her practice, that Christian Science heals the sick quickly and wholly, thus proving this Science to be all that we claim for it"? This By-Law has puzzled and sometimes troubled those members of The Mother Church who are taking an active part in the world of business.

Soon after the publication of a new edition of the Manual of The Mother Church its author, Mary Baker Eddy, wrote concerning it ( The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and Miscellany, p. 230 ), "Of this I am sure, that each Rule and By-law in this Manual will increase the spirituality of him who obeys it, invigorate his capacity to heal the sick, to comfort such as mourn, and to awaken the sinner.

In the light of present world happenings men are more conscious than ever before of the meaning of the old saying, "Blessings brighten as they take their flight. " Possibly no word has stood for more in human thought than the word "freedom," and yet, as in our day freedom has appeared to become more and ever more limited, has there not also in like proportion been made apparent the world's deep love and appreciation of it? Have men not evidenced perhaps the greatest willingness ever seen to make whatever sacrifice is necessary to regain the freedom that has already been temporarily lost to many nations? In those nations which have not been deprived of their freedom, but are beholding in many directions that which seriously threatens it, do we not see unparalleled efforts to subjugate all enemy action at home and abroad aimed at the curtailment of the liberty which free people accept as their God-given privilege? It is indeed true that freedom as known by mankind is essential to human happiness, and that it will never be established on a permanent basis until men individually and collectively realize that man is freeborn, and that his freedom is based upon spiritual law, which emanates from God, the alone lawmaker, and is eternally sustained thereby.