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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 This dominion was given to the spiritual consciousness which reflects God, and it has never been withdrawn.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.

That men and nations may pass through the troubled waters of this period into smoother seas, there is great need that their governments should be based upon righteousness, need that men should be mindful of the source of stability and prosperity, that faith, understanding, and strength necessary to meet the difficulties be forthcoming. Each country is representative of the thinking of its citizens.

As ordinarily considered, health refers to one's physical condition; but Webster defines it in a broader sense as "state of being hale, sound, or whole, in body, mind, or soul. " It is, however, for Christian Science to raise the standard still higher, and link health with holiness.

Paul writes, in his second epistle to the Corinthians, "Such trust have we through Christ to God-ward: not that we are sufficient of ourselves to think any thing as of ourselves; but our sufficiency is of God. " Paul had proved in his own experience that complete reliance on God, the all-knowing, ever-present, infinite, divine Mind, gives one the intelligence, ability, discernment, and strength needed in any right undertaking.

Some persons believe that they are possessed of what they call practical natures. They hold a certain disdain for what they regard as impractical ideas, and assume that religion falls under this category, believing that while religion may be a beautiful theory, it is not workable in everyday life, and that practical situations must be met in practical ways.

Everyone is naturally concerned with being —with what really is, as it pertains to himself and others; and when one considers the nature of being he sees that this is as it should be, for being is divine unfoldment, infinite Mind or divine Principle forever infinitely expressing itself according to its own unvarying perfection. The writings of Mary Baker Eddy make plain that the nature of being is unfoldment.