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On many sides today it is said, in effect, These are changing times, and we hope and pray that, in the end, the change will be for the best, and mankind will be truly benefited. Then, frequently, is added this question: "But how are we to analyze the situation intelligently and accurately; and how are we to dispose of the momentous happenings of the present hour?" In other words, What is the correct answer to the present world problem? On page 255 of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," Mary Baker Eddy makes this pertinent statement: "Eternal Truth is changing the universe.

One of the most joyous things in the teaching of Christian Science is its insistence upon the omnipotence of good and the powerlessness of evil. Acknowledging God as the fundamental cause of all that really exists, Christian Science places everything that is like Him in the realm of the real; and, correspondingly, whatever is unlike God is seen as a mistake or an unreality.

The modern student of the New Testament is so familiar with the four brief books which we call Gospels that it is all too easy for him to forget that at first the Gospel was oral, not written. Moreover, it appears that originally the Gospel consisted of the spoken teachings of Christ Jesus himself.

In the inspiring Preface to "Miscellaneous Writings," Mrs. Eddy states that the book is published in answer to many requests for the assembling in a single volume of her articles and poems which had appeared in The Christian Science Journal.

It is recorded that on one occasion "all the people" came to the prophet Jeremiah saying, ''Pray for us .

In Genesis it is recorded that God gave man dominion over all the earth. This dominion was given to the spiritual consciousness which reflects God, and it has never been withdrawn.

When Ruskin replied to the political economists of his day, he summed up his findings in the comprehensive statement, "There is no wealth but life. " Such a declaration is not strange to the student of Christian Science, who knows that God is Life, Spirit, true substance.

Simple wayside observations frequently quicken one's thought to discern spiritual facts. A student of Christian Science, sitting on a garden bench where he had paused for a few moments, noticed that when he focused his gaze upon the mud at the bottom of a small pool, he saw nothing else.

Christian Science is the law of God, available in every human situation, and to be learned and applied by every individual. This Science, or demonstrable law of God, was discovered by Mary Baker Eddy because her consciousness, eagerly longing for spiritual understanding, was pure enough to discern the facts of spiritual being.

Upon our understanding of what constitutes true existence depend our health, our peace of mind, our spiritual progress, and the happiness that belongs to every child of God. Through Christian Science we are learning that we can gain and retain a clear perception of our God-given freedom—freedom evidenced by release from fear, by more peaceful environment, by a very certain sense that good alone is real.