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MARY BAKER EDDY , the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, writes on pages 332 and 333 of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures": "Into the real and ideal man the fleshly element cannot enter. Thus it is that Christ illustrates the coincidence, or spiritual agreement, between God and man in His image.

FOR millions of people belonging to the present warring nations, the future seems so laden with evil portent, with the threat of privation, danger, and death, that one of the greatest questions occupying thought at the present time must be, Is there no way of escape from all of this evil? There are many who feel themselves being driven forward to certain doom without the power to resist. But is this inevitable? Biblical history indicates that it is not inevitable, and that men have the right and power of appeal to God against injustice.

THE allegorical court trial in "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy (pp. 430-442) is replete with meaning.

THROUGHOUT all history men have tenaciously contended for the attainment of power. This struggle has gained in intensity, until today it is assuming unprecedented proportions.

BECAUSE man is created in the image and likeness of God, as is stated in the first chapter of Genesis, his status is that of immortal perfection. But, in general, humanity is not aware of this truth.

TODAY many are asking, "Where may I find the health, peace, supply, which are not subject to chance, change, depletion, loss?" Christian Science reveals the answer to this question to the satisfaction of all earnest seekers for Truth. The teachings of Christian Science, applied and practiced in individual experience, bring into consciousness the joy that stays, the peace that endures, the understanding of substance that is secure, because these are based on the fact of God's allness and of man's spiritual likeness to and oneness with God.

WHILE stress is rightly laid upon the foundation which the Old Testament and its writers provided for the New Testament, all too little attention has been paid to the preparation which can be traced in Jewish religious books which do not form part of our Old Testament, but which nevertheless helped to make ready the thoughts of the people for the teachings of Christ Jesus. Especially is this true of the Judaic literature which appeared just prior to the New Testament period.

WHEN Jesus, questioned by Pilate, "gave him no answer," was it because he knew there was no need for justifying either himself or his deeds? Pilate's rebuke, "Speakest thou not unto me? knowest thou not that I have power to crucify thee, and have power to release thee?" was met with Jesus' ready affirmation, "Thou couldest have no power at all against me, except it were given thee from above. " The Master knew that since God is good, the only power He gives is good, and that the belief in a power apart from and opposed to God could have no power over him.

OUR true possessions are always spiritual; they are never material. Material things, however abundant, of themselves never actually satisfy.

IN Joshua we read, "There failed not ought of any good thing which the Lord had spoken unto the house of Israel; all came to pass. " When Joshua, the son of Nun, led the children of Israel into the promised land, the land flowing with milk and honey, he, like Moses, consciously talked with God.