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During a trip through beautiful northern California in the springtime, a party of motorists stopped beside a wide, green meadow to repair a tire. While this work was being done, a young mother and her little boy wandered down the road gathering wild flowers.

What is encouragement? Is it based on belief in the fleeting and changeable, or on an understanding of the facts of the eternal and changeless? Have any found enduring encouragement in anything that works on the so-called material emotions? Have any failed to find encouragement in the true understanding of God, perfect substance, and of man, God's idea? Christian Science invites consideration of these questions, knowing that the opposite of encouragement is mentally wrong, and, like all that is different from God, may be readily overcome by the seeking and accepting of divine reality. A common error with many, including the professed followers of Christ, is that of limited expectation of good from Christ's Christianity.

The textbook of Christian Science, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," written by Mary Baker Eddy, its Discoverer and Founder, states in full the teachings of Christian Science. The student of this book soon realizes that the truth of spiritual existence is therein revealed.

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.