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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.

Early in the Victorian period an unusual book was written and published in England. More than a century later it is still widely read.

The fluctuating fortunes of the past few years' struggle abroad, the unexpected loss of seemingly invulnerable fortifications, the arrowswift shifting of advantages and positions, undoubtedly tend to make many wonder if there is any fortification in the world that will hold. Indeed there is, but it is not made of anything put together by human hands.

Since the word "canon" derives O from a Greek term signifying "a rule or standard," a study of the Canon of the New Testament involves the examination of how certain Christian writings grew to be rightfully considered as the standard or norm for Christian faith and instruction, forming eventually what we term the New Testament. It is, then, a mistake to suppose that the New Testament, closely integrated as it seems to us, originally appeared in its present form.

Paul's regenerative awakening to spiritual understanding is thoroughly evidenced in his words, found in II Corinthians, "We know that if our earthly house of this tabernacle were dissolved, we have a building of God, an house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens. " Through the spiritual unfoldment which Christian Science reveals, the true interpretation of these words comes to light.

The mirage graphically illustrates several important facts that are pertinent to an understanding of Christian Science and to the application of this understanding in human experience. Mary Baker Eddy says in "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" ( p.