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The path of so-called mortal existence, or life in matter, includes material birth, growth, maturity, and decay. It involves sickness and health, poverty and wealth, sorrow and joy, all the outcome or expression of a material state of consciousness.

It might be said that the way in which we meet the demands upon our time and abilities determines the harmony and progress of our experience. In the hurry and scurry of a false sense of responsibility, our effort may be on the side of trying humanly to meet every demand made upon us.

The student of Christian Science learns that God, infinite good, is the only presence and power, and that good always was and always will be above the falsities of the carnal mind. He proves the richness of spiritual dominion and the joy of entertaining in his consciousness only spiritual ideas, which are real, lasting, and uplifting.

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.