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" Choose you this day whom ye will serve; whether the gods which your fathers served that were on the other side of the flood, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land ye dwell: but as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord. " So spoke Joshua to the people of Israel, after enumerating to them the good they had received when they had put their faith in God's guidance.

The light in which Christian Science presents the true meaning of resurrection arouses a genuine incentive to live truly, to become spiritually-minded, and to claim as ever present our eternal state of spiritual being. By revealing the divine Principle upon which to demonstrate immortal life, wherein is freedom from sorrow, aloneness, sin, sickness, and death, Christian Science obviates in our thinking the false sense of preparation for death, either as something inevitable or as a steppingstone to eternal life.

Satisfactory and profitable employment, broadly viewed, is something desired and sought at some time by almost every human being. When employment is considered merely as a localized material activity, subject to and controlled by the will of many persons, it becomes an illusive something, here today, gone tomorrow; something subject to chance and change; something to be gained and lost through dishonest practices, wealth, social prominence, political pressure.

With pertinency and tenderness our loving Leader, Mary Baker Eddy, spoke these words in her first address in The Mother Church in 1895 (Miscellaneous Writings, p. 110) : "Beloved children, the world has need of you,—and more as children than as men and women: it needs your innocence, unselfishness, faithful affection, uncontaminated lives.

And so I find it well to come For deeper rest to this still room. So wrote the poet Whittier in his beautiful defense of the Quaker meeting; and he goes on to say: And from the silence multiplied By these still forms on either side, The world that time and sense have known Falls off and leaves us God alone.

Sometimes the aggressive suggestion comes that because one has made a mistake consequent sufferings must inevitably continue, or that, having experienced a failure, one cannot avoid further failures; but Christian Science dispels such illusions with the spiritual fact that man, in the likeness of God, is forever under the unerring direction of divine Mind, and Mind does not know mistakes. The understanding of this truth is manifested in human experience, in progress, achievement, and success.

In Science man reflects God, his Maker. It follows that spiritual man is not a mere pinprick of light in an immense darkness.

After Paul had been sent to Rome as a result of his appeal to Caesar, two years passed before his case was brought to trial (Acts 28:30),and four of his letters apparently date from this period of semicaptivity. It appears that a certain Epaphroditus had come to him from Philippi offering both consolation and financial support to the apostle ( cf.

Ever-Increasing numbers are hearing of and enjoying the inspiring services held by Christian Science churches and societies throughout the world. To multitudes these churches are havens of rest and spiritual refreshment, places where one may freely go and find true spiritual enlightenment.

Many alert thinkers of today have raised their voices to declare that the great need of mankind is a revival of religion. Such signs of the times are welcome, for only through increased spiritual understanding can genuine peace be established on earth.