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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.

Thought the light that Christian Science has thrown upon the Scriptures, seekers for Truth, those striving to work out their human problems in the way of God's appointing, are demonstrating as never before a fuller measure of health, happiness, harmony, and abundance. God's command, "Let there be light," may be taken as the basis of our prayer, which covers every human need.

In the Gospel of Mark there is related the story of a woman who had suffered with an issue of blood twelve years, and had spent all that she possessed, yet continued to grow worse. The narrative goes on to tell us that when the woman heard of Jesus she came in the throng that followed him, intent upon being helped; she felt that if she could but touch his garment she would be restored to health.

" The Church, more than any other institution, at present is the cement of society, and it should be the bulwark of civil and religious liberty. " So writes Mary Baker Eddy on pages 144 and 145 of "Miscellaneous Writings.

"God has built a higher platform of human rights, and He has built it on diviner claims. " These arresting words by Mary Baker Eddy on page 226 of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" are followed by another remarkable statement: "These claims are not made through code or creed, but in demonstration of 'on earth peace, goodwill toward men.

To the children of Israel, Moses said, "I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing: therefore choose life, that both thou and thy seed may live. " Today this choice is before each individual, and everyone, whether consciously or unconsciously, chooses what he believes to be life.

Only through the light which Christian Science throws on the Scriptures can the importance and the value of patient waiting be understood and appreciated. The Apostle Paul said, "If we hope for that we see not, then do we with patience wait for it.

To those who, in the words of Isaiah, are "afflicted, tossed with tempest, and not comforted," Christian Science comes with its wondrous message of healing and salvation. It brings with it the sovereign remedy for sin, disease, discord, and distress.