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It is related in the Gospel of Luke that John the Baptist, while in prison, sent two of his students to Jesus to ask if he was indeed the Messiah of prophecy. It is also recorded that "in that same hour" he healed many of those present of their diseases.

On one occasion, according to the sixth chapter of Mark, Christ Jesus instructed his disciples to take a boat and go to Bethsaida. In the evening, when the boat was in the middle of the sea, Jesus saw the disciples straining at the oars, for the wind was against them.

" Come , walk with Love along the way, Let childlike trust be yours today; Uplift your thought, with courage go, Give of your heart's rich overflow. " To those who have experienced the beautiful healings, the joy, and peace which come with the study of Christian Science, the "heart's rich overflow" brings up visions of unbounded gratitude for that which Mary Baker Eddy, the Discoverer and Founder of this Science, has given to mankind.

When Jesus sent forth his disciples on the great mission of preaching the gospel of the kingdom and healing the sick, he did not for a moment let them think that this was to be a flowery mission of ease or one lacking its full measure of responsibility. On the contrary, he warned them that they were going forth "as sheep in the midst of wolves.

Probably no one chapter in the Old Testament has been studied more by Christians of all denominations than the ninety-first Psalm. It is a mighty, spiritual bulwark, and in it may be found the answer to innumerable problems.

Anyone who finds himself tempted to be cast down by reports coming in from today's scattered theaters of war may recover his peace of mind and his assurance of the final outcome if he will stop to consider, in the light of Christian Science, the true nature of the conflict which seems at present to be drawing the whole world into a maelstrom of senseless destruction. What we are beholding is not merely an attack of dictatorship upon democracy, carried on by the aggressors with mechanized brute force and cunning devices of human psychology.

Not only in national or world affairs is it necessary vigorously and persistently to be assured that victory must be and always will be, in the long view, on the side of right. That same confident and courageous mental attitude must be maintained by the Christian Science warrior through all his own human experience, if that experience is to be kept out of darkness and in the light.

The words found on page 468 of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" in what is known as "the scientific statement of being" have revolutionized human thought in a major degree. This statement presents a new concept of Deity and of the universe of reality, and accordingly has revolutionized the basis of the world's religions.

These two brief epistles are here considered together, since it is generally held that their authors were brothers, who also were numbered among those who are described as "the brethren of the Lord. " We learn from Matthew's Gospel ( 13:55 ) that Jesus had four brothers—who may have been, as many suppose, children of Joseph by a former marriage, being thus more strictly "half-brothers" of the Master.

The philosophy of Christ Jesus involved a practical idealism. So effective was the Master's spiritual deliberation that he could permanently heal all manner of sickness, sin, disease, and physical impairment.