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A Dictionary defines temptation, in part, as "an inducement; an allurement, esp. to something evil.

In the Glossary in "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" Mary Baker Eddy, with deep spiritual insight and originality, has defined the words "I, or Ego," as follows ( p. 588 ): "Divine Principle; Spirit; Soul; incorporeal, unerring, immortal, and eternal Mind;" and, amplifying it, she adds in part, "There is but one I, or Us, but one divine Principle, or Mind, governing all existence.

Whatever the present pretenses of evil may be, or however firmly they may seem to bind human society in chains, the Christian Scientist knows that God is supreme, and that His perfect law must continue to lead on the ages. We have it in Scripture that "where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty.

Christ Jesus said, "I and my Father are one. " Christian Science reveals this oneness of God and man to consist in the fact that man is God's expression, hence is inseparable from Him.

While the ultimate triumph of right over wrong is certain, there is great need at this time for each individual to assume responsibility for his own part in securing peace for the world. Present conditions are a challenge to all right thinking people to arouse themselves to active support of the truth.

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 .