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It comes as a surprise to many of those seeking help in Christian Science to learn what a great part their own thinking, whether good or evil thinking, plays in their human experience. And they may be even more surprised to learn that everything they see is the expression of thought, although they may readily concede that every act must be the result of thought.

In his letter to them Paul tells the Ephesians that he prays for them "unto the Father .

The Gospel relates that once, while Jesus was asleep in a boat, his disciples were very fearful because of a storm which had arisen; so they awakened the Master, telling him they were about to perish. As he quieted the storm with his blessed "Peace, be still," Jesus rebuked their fear with the pertinent question, "How is it that ye have no faith?" It might be well during times of trial and struggles with error to ask ourselves the question, "Where is our faith?" Is it placed in matter, in an evil power, in sin, sickness, and death? Do we give these unrealities power? Or is our faith a firm and constant trust in God, securely anchored in His omnipotence, omnipresence, and infinitude? Christian Science teaches us that God is All, that He is Mind, and that there is nothing opposed to this infinitely good and only power, which is eternally operating everywhere.

By the Christian Scientist, the evenings and mornings of the first chapter of Genesis are not taken as records of material darkness and dawn, but as constantly unfolding spiritual views of Truth, advancing states of consciousness. As Mary Baker Eddy says in "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" ( P.

Christ Jesus declared that he came to do the will of his Father, and on this basis he healed the sick, raised the dead, walked on the water, fed the multitudes, and stilled the tempest. These beneficent acts and others of a similar nature are commonly called miracles, although, according to the teachings of Jesus himself, they were entirely in accord with the divine will; hence divinely natural.

The life and works of Christ Jesus exemplified divine energy as applied in human experience. Knowing that the divine power of God, Mind, Spirit, Soul, could be manifested only in perfect healing and redemptive work, Jesus, by his complete reliance on God, was enabled to perform the many wonderful healings recorded of him in the Gospels.

The Apostle Jemes writes, "Let no man say when he is tempted, I am tempted of God: for God cannot be tempted with evil, neither tempteth he any man. " He had previously written, "My brethren, count it all joy when ye fall into divers temptations.

"Loving Father, we Thy children Look to Thee in fear's dark night While the angels of Thy presence Guide us upward to the light. " In the ninety-first Psalm the Psalmist rejoices in God's protecting care over those who put their trust in Him: "He shall give his angels charge over thee, to keep thee in all thy ways.

Down through the centuries, false religious teaching has played a major part in obstructing and hindering the progress of the race and the freedom of men. Incorrect concepts of God and man are responsible for our difficulties, and only clear scientific thinking will liberate us.

When Christ Jesus declared to his disciples, "Ye are the light of the world," he was not speaking to an extraordinary group of people, but to a group of simple men, engaged in ordinary vocations, whose only claim to distinction was that they had recognized the Christ which Jesus revealed and manifested, and had left all to follow him. The disciples made many mistakes; they often failed to understand their Master's teachings, but Jesus patiently taught, rebuked, and many times forgave them; and he said to them, "Ye are the light of the world.