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Students of Christian Science regard their obligations not as burdens, but as opportunities to demonstrate Christian Science. They recognize that each problem presents an opportunity for spiritual unfoldment Knowing that the infinite resources of divine Mind are ever present, they confidently expect to discern the right ideas which will enable them to fulfill their moral, financial, and spiritual obligations.

There are many today who are looking for a refuge from the tempest of present world events. They are groping in the darkness for someone or something that will lead them out and plant their feet on a firm foundation.

One of the vital concerns of the business man—be he engineer, executive, or salesman—is production. Production must be kept up or there will be stagnation in the business cycle, with resulting unemployment and distress.

Many of those who take up the study of Christian Science do so in the hope of being healed of some physical disorder, disability, or disease which medical practitioners have failed to cure. That this hope is fully justified is proved in the case of thousands of individuals who, having turned to Christian Science for relief from discordant conditions, have been healed.

The Bible abounds with beautiful accounts of the deliverance of men and, in some instances, an entire army of men, from grave peril through the power of God as expressed by His angels. In some pictures in old versions of the Bible, angels are portrayed as human beings with wings.

Our beloved Leader, Mary Baker Eddy, in her tenderly beautiful poem, "To the Sunday School Children," includes the prayer ( Poems, p. 43 ): "Father, in Thy great heart hold them Ever thus as Thine! Shield and guide and guard them; and when At some siren shrine They would lay their pure hearts' off'ring, Light with wisdom's ray— Beacon beams—athwart the weakly, Rough or treacherous way.

Viewed from the standpoint of the material senses, business life seems to be threatened on all sides. from within and from without, by the forces of evil, defeat, and dissolution.

After the birth of Jesus, Joseph was warned by an angel, "Arise, and take the young child and his mother, and flee into Egypt, and be thou there until I bring thee word: for Herod will seek the young child to destroy him. " Joseph did not argue with this holy intuition, which was a message from God; he promptly obeyed, though humanly speaking it might have seemed strangely unnatural to go into a far country steeped in idolatry and mesmerism.

In our acknowledgment of God as infinite is found deliverance from that which is unlike God. What blessings there are in store for us as we enlarge our concept of Him and His completeness and perfection, and of man as His complete and perfect reflection, created, sustained, and protected by His spiritual law and subject alone to Him! "In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy paths.

In a recent number of the Christian Science Sentinel, there appeared in the "Signs of the Times" an excerpt from the British Weekly, London, England, by the Rev. James Reid, D.