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Out of the present chaotic conditions is heard the question, "Where are peace and safety to be sought?" A complete and satisfying answer to this question is to be found in Christian Science, which reveals God as divine, omnipresent Love, who, being of "purer eyes that to behold evil," knows no element that can result in sin, sickness, or death. Then follows the question, "If this is true, whence cometh evil?" Since it is not embraced in the infinite, omnipotent God, it is an erroneous sense of God and of man's relationship to Him.

Christ Jesus stated a great fact when he replied to the young man who called him, "Good Master," "Why callest thou me good? there is none good but one, that is, God. " From a human standpoint, Jesus surely had a right to be called good.

" I am the Lord thy God, which have brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage. Thou shalt have no other gods before me.

In the fifth chapter of the Gospel of Luke is recorded a vital experience which has been a source of inspiration to many Bible students. The command of Christ Jesus, "Launch out into the deep, and let down your nets for a draught," was given to Simon at a time when discouragement, fruitless toil, and failure probably were clamoring for recognition in the thoughts of the fishermen.

Writing to the church at Philippi, Paul spoke of some "who mind earthly things," and he continued by saying, "Our citizenship is in heaven" (American Standard Version). From this passage of Scripture we know that our citizenship is not material, for we live in "a city which hath foundations, whose builder and maker is God.

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.