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Throughout untold centuries, the children of men have been the hapless victims of illusions, unenlightenment, misrepresentation, ignorance, and fear. All too frequently mankind accepts without question the belief that whatever the material senses cognize, is actually true and real.

Inherent in the human consciousness is the deep and abiding conviction that the Scriptural assurance of man's dominion over the earth must at some time and in some way reach fulfillment. The fact that men and women have instinctively resisted evil and have felt that the adverse conditions in human experience should be subject to correction bears witness to the wholly illegitimate nature of all evil.

It is undoubtedly the sincere desire of all those who have acknowledged the name of Christ in its healing, saving sense to gain heights of greater understanding and quicker demonstration in the sacred ministry of Truth. What is this name of Christ, or Messiah, which has held so supreme a place in the hearts and lives of Godlike men? What is it but the manifestation of divine reality? It has been believed that the Christ came with the appearing of Jesus and left with his disappearing, but Christian Science has brought to light the true meaning of Christ, defined by Mary Baker Eddy in " Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" (p.

We read in the first chapter of Genesis that "God saw every thing that he had made, and, behold, it was very good. " This creation of God's, then, contains no element of error or evil; it contains nothing unlike Himself, but throughout partakes of the nature of the creative Principle, God.

The Apostle James exhorted his brethren, "Let patience have her perfect work, that ye may be perfect and entire, wanting nothing. " What a rarity is a person who wants nothing! It seems to be the nature of mortal man to feel limited, incomplete, and insecure.

In one of his stirring and illuminating letters to the church at Corinth, St. Paul speaks of "casting down imaginations" with spiritual weapons.

To forgive so as to forget a great wrong often seems impossible, much as one may strive to do so. The effort to forgive, even though not entirely successful, is nevertheless a step in the right direction, being in accord with the great commandments to love God and one's fellow man.

Out of the present turmoil of human thought, violently loosened from its old anchorages, a general consensus of opinion seems to be forming that an entirely new way of life must be evolved, so that, national and international confidence being restored, men may unite in peace and spears be turned into pruning hooks, as the prophet expressed it many hundreds of years ago. No one so far has set forth in full detail what shape or form this new way must take, nor has there been a definite lifting of the veil of materialism which has dropped over so much human activity, excepting, it would seem, that of destructiveness and counter destructiveness.

Tucked away between the pages of "Letters from those Healed by Reading 'Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures'" ( Miscellaneous Writings, pp. 460–463 ) are a number of statements from the contemporaneous press regarding the recently published "Science and Health" and the method of healing it set forth.

The making of decisions, especially important decisions, is oftentimes regarded as a difficult experience. In considering two or more possible courses of action, men are frequently at a loss to know which is the right one.