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Whether or not one is immediately confronted with a financial problem to be solved, it is vitally important that every student of Christian Science should ask himself these questions: "What is my present concept of supply? Am I still thinking that matter supplies me with the necessities of life? Or am I seeing supply as purely spiritual, limitless, without taint of materiality, emanating directly from God?" In squarely facing this question of supply and gaining the correct scientific concept thereof, one not only finds that the outward evidence of abundance in his own experience is increased, but he also is helping to lift the false burden of limited material thinking from all mankind and annulling the belief in a mind opposed to God. By healing one's sense of supply through proving that Spirit, Truth, is the only real substance, and that man reflects this infinite, divine substance, one is as definitely helping to establish the kingdom of heaven on earth as if, through obedience to the teachings of Christian Science, he had destroyed the belief in an incurable physical condition, a stubborn hereditary sin, or any other error of sense.

On a certain occasion the statement was made to Christ Jesus, "Lord, I will follow thee; but let me first go bid them farewell, which are at home at my house. " The Master rebuked the lack of steadfast adherence to the call of Truth by his inspired answer, "No man, having put his hand to the plough, and looking back, is fit for the kingdom of God.

The writer, on one occasion, heard over the radio a dramatization of the attempts made by certain pioneers, one hundred and sixty years ago, to discover a path across a chain of mountains beyond which, it was felt, lay perhaps thousands of square miles of rich country. The opening up of these plains would mean much progress to the new country which was then being settled.

Christian Science is unfolding to human consciousness a spiritual activity that can be truly appraised only as its divine Principle is understood. The great value of this spiritual activity and of its underlying Science is becoming more apparent as men appreciate the growing need for moral and spiritual regeneration if Christianity is to survive the carnal beliefs that appear to beset it.

To the spiritually unenlightened thought human existence seems to present a state of continual warfare between two conflicting forces, namely, good and evil. One yearns for better human conditions, and readily accepts the good that comes into his experience, but continually fears and seeks to avoid the untoward conditions which, to mortal sense, seem as real as the good.

True self-consciousness is spiritual man's comprehension of himself as the infinite and complete expression of ever-present God. good.

Though , as the result of wars and rumors of wars, unsettled governments, seeming chance and constant change, our times would appear to be more perilous than those of previous generations, yet Christian Science offers us a refuge beyond material reasoning, far above human understanding, where thought is lifted to the spiritual sense of being. The belief of the individual in discord and disaster tends toward the universal acceptance of the inevitability of these very conditions.

If it were necessary to state in a few words the nature of the educational enlightenment Christian Science is affording one,it might be phrased as follows: To think out from Truth, divine Mind, instead of trying to look at existence through a personal, human mind. By defying the suggested substantiality and would-be reality of this human mind, Mary Baker Eddy, with her penetrating spiritual understanding, undertook the search of the nature of the universe from its primal source.

Infinite , eternal Mind is all-encompassing, unchanging, forever harmonious, and therein lives man, the reflection of God, the indestructible idea of Love divine. Man is forever conscious of his unity with God, linked inseparably with the glory, grandeur, bliss, beauty, perfection, and harmony of infinite Mind.

Though Paul's letters to the Galatians and to the Romans date from different periods in his career, they may be considered together, since they both deal with the basic subject of the relation between Judaism and Christianity. The earlier of the two letters appears to have been written about 53 a.