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Springtime has ever been the symbol of promise, hope, and fulfillment to mankind. When the long winter's rigor is past, and the cold hardness of things begins to soften, earth's mundane drabness changes into newness and growth, freshness, color, and flower.

In spite of the abundance in the material world today, multitudes in every nation are suffering from lack of the necessities of life, and are seemingly at a loss to know where to turn for supplies. This condition exists because there is a widespread misunderstanding of the nature of God and of His purpose for man.

The Scriptural proclamation in the first chapter of Genesis, "And God saw every thing that he had made, and, behold, it was very good," simply and clearly presents the truth of creation—God, good, having no unlikeness, and everywhere expressed. Christian Science accepts this view of creation in its entirety and without equivocation, although it is the one most remote from common acceptance, for men are inclined to the belief that God knows and permits evil, that the universe including man is a combination of matter and Spirit, and that harmony and inharmony are equally real.

" Awareness ," in general usage, is knowledge or consciousness of physical things, conditions, or designs. There is, moreover, a spiritual awareness of God's creation, of good.

The statement from our textbook, "'Love one another' (I John, iii. 23), is the most simple and profound counsel of the inspired writer" (Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy, p.

The Gospel of John differs so widely from the three Synoptic Gospels, both in its content and in its method of presenting Christ Jesus' career, that it is important to understand the reasons motivating John's individual treatment of the subject. In John, the Master's preaching appears to center in Judea; in the Synoptics, his basic work is done in Galilee.

Once , when called upon in an emergency to help another, a student was impressed with the fact that Christian Science is an exact, demonstrable Science, and is to be systematically studied as such. Sometimes Christian Science may be appealed to in an emergency very much as one might turn to a material remedy.

It is natural for everyone to desire to progress. The highest progress is spiritual.

For ages, mankind generally has accepted a material sense of life and happiness. It looks to the physical body for life and health, and to material possessions, personal friends, and material pursuits for happiness; and this undoubtedly accounts for all the discord, disappointment, insecurity, and uncertainty in the world.

To the casual reader or the unenlightened thought, some passages in the Scriptures may sound contradictory and confusing. Why did Christ Jesus at times command those whom he had healed to "tell no man," while on other occasions he asked that the healings should be proclaimed? Christian Science illumines each Biblical text and brings light into the obscurity of material thinking.