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All Christians agree that in God is the power to still the mightiest tempest, right the greatest wrong, lighten the darkest place, and heal all sickness. Many religionists, however, still uncertainly ponder the questions: "Is this power of God available to humanity as a healing and regenerative influence?" "Can the individual, here and now, utilize divine power as Jesus did?" Christian Science brings mankind a positive and affirmative answer to these questions.

When one is baffled and perplexed by adverse circumstances, or waiting and drifting, it is helpful prayerfully to consider what is involved in true accomplishment. This may be a first step out of a state of inaction or bondage.

A dictionary defines "reason" in part as "the power of comprehending and inferring; the ability to trace out the implications of a combination of facts. " Mary Baker Eddy, the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, has written in "Science and Health with Key to Scriptures," the textbook of Christian Science ( p.

At a time like this in the world's history, when evil claims to be increasingly aggressive and seeks to mesmerize mankind by fear and a sense of helplessness, it is wise, as it is at all times, to turn to the Bible, the Word of God, for comfort and guidance. It is of particular interest and value for us to refresh our memory in regard to the story of David and Goliath, as told in the seventeenth chapter of I Samuel.

Christian Science is not a faith-cure. Its healings result from the operation of divine Principle, or Truth, acting beneficially upon human belief.

What the Christian Scientist desires above all else is that he may be receptive to Truth. He prays with Solomon, "Give therefore thy servant an understanding heart to judge thy people.

The understanding of the eternal laws of Truth shortens the seeming duration of error. In "Miscellaneous Writings," Mary Baker Eddy, the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, gives assurance of the ultimate destruction of error and of the hastening of its end, where she says ( p.

How great the blessings that will be seen to flow to humanity when men universally echo the Psalmist's glad statement, "O how love I thy law! it is my meditation all the day"! Happifying, indeed, it is to meditate daily on, and seek to be governed solely by, divine law, which is universal and impartial in its beneficent operations. God's law is the law of Life, the law of infinite Love, the law of true justice.

CHRIST JESUS , as quoted in the twenty-first chapter of Luke, significantly depicts the confusion, fear, discord, and dismay which should come in a mighty struggle between the negative so-called forces of evil and the positive forces of omnipotent good. The prophetic utterances of this chapter are, however, interspersed with comforting promises of divine protection and assurances of the triumph of good over evil.

The word "good" is commonly used in a human, unspiritual meaning, to indicate a human quality, better than bad, but still human and so not associated with, nor expressive of, the only real good, God. Mary Baker Eddy, in choosing words with which to express her discovery of Christian Science, gave the word "good" its basic, spiritual meaning, making it synonymous with God, man's only true Life.