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If we would identify man and the universe, we must learn to turn to the Scriptures for divine wisdom and the truth of being. In the first chapter of St.

Despite denominational differences in ritual and dogma, the omniscience, omnipresence, and omnipotence of God are fundamental in Christian theism. Christian Science not only teaches the omniscience, omnipresence, and omnipotence of God, but unreservedly practices it.

Throughout the Bible from the account of creation in the first chapter of Genesis to the description of the holy city given in Revelation, we find frequent reference to and description of God's kingdom, or the kingdom of heaven. For centuries men have been taught that the account in the first chapter of Genesis refers to the creation of the material world, and that the holy city, as described in Revelation, is a place called heaven in some remote, unknown locality where mortals go after they have passed through the transition called death.

One who is alert, calm, poised, and resourceful, irrespective of how urgent or portentous the pending problem seems to be, is said to have "presence of mind. " He says and does the right thing at the right time.

The invisible Church of the living God, the real Church, is of necessity spiritual. Mary Baker Eddy defines "Church," in part, in "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" ( p.

" Art thou the King of the Jews?" A Pilate's momentous question to Jesus in the judgment hall at Jerusalem as the latter awaited the fateful decision of his enemies called forth from the discerning consciousness of the great Nazarene the counter-question, "Sayest thou this thing of thyself, or did others tell it thee of me?" It was as if the Master, perceiving the governor's hesitation and unwillingness to condemn him, sought to arouse in him a moral courage capable of resisting the clamor of the populace; and perhaps even more did he seek to awaken him to the spiritual truths which it was Jesus' mission as the Messiah to reveal, both by his original utterances and by his demonstration of divine law. At this supreme moment of his earthly career Jesus stood at the bar of human judgment, a judgment devoid of justice, influenced and inflamed by bitter hatred, fear, and ecclesiastical jealousy, and administered by one prepared to compromise Principle for popularity.

It is self-evident in the light of Christian Science that nothing can exist except as the product or creation of a self-existent creator. Deity alone is eternally self-existent, the one primal, infinite causation, without an opposite or an equal.

In today's critical stage of humanity's warfare against aggressive evil, Christian Science has given to the world a trained and experienced army, the army of Christian Scientists who have already had victorious experience in annulling the attacks of evil in their own lives and in the lives of others. Loud among error's claims today is the claim of lack in its various phases: lack of food, freedom, security, and the human necessities of living in the overrun countries; lack of true government and of purity on the part of the peoples in the aggressor nations; lack of foresight, of energy, of supplies, and above all, lack of weapons on the part of the democracies.

The Sermon on the Mount has been accepted by millions as an outstanding utterance of spiritual truths. Christ Jesus begins his incomparable sermon with the statement, "Blessed are the poor in spirit: for their's is the kingdom of heaven.

With what comfort do all the miracles of the Bible, both in the Old and in the New Testament, come to us at this time! A thoughtful survey of them reveals practically every type of mortal discord overcome, and in each is the vital fact demonstrated of the supremacy of good over evil. As we study and restudy them in the light of Christian Science, a new breath from heaven fans these familiar narratives into living messages of truth to meet the problems in the world today.