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In the age-old struggle against physical, financial, and economic difficulties, humanity has oftentimes overlooked the one unfailing remedy for all of these ills, which has always been right at hand and instantly available. More than nineteen centuries ago this positive, unerring, and changeless rule, by which every phase of human discord may be corrected, was revealed to the world by the Galilean Prophet, Jesus of Nazareth.

In a time when we are supposed to be living in a weary, sinful world, a world where much is wrong, it is heartening to remember the promise of God to Noah after the abating of the waters, "I do set my bow in the cloud, and .

An essential of real and lasting government is that it functions with the consent of the governed. Mary Baker Eddy has written ( The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and Miscellany, p.

How much we need patience and perseverance in order to make our demonstrations in Christian Science, thus overcoming material sense and progressing heavenward! The word "patient" is defined in part as "expectant with calmness and without discontent. " What are we expecting? Good or evil? The expectation of good brings calmness and contentment; and only by learning to trust God as all-powerful does one learn to expect and accept good alone.

Three simple, God-loving men, we are told in the Scriptures, refused to compromise with certain orders of the king of the land. At the sound of much noise and music the princes, governors, counselors, judges, and all the people were commanded to fall down and worship an image of gold—to pay homage to materialism.

Every Christian Scientist may well be interested in church building. Indeed, the earnest consideration of the subject affords an analogy to the building of our lives, our characters, our professions.

It is natural, and indeed necessary, that in times of fear, confusion, and violence, such as now seem to be involving the greater part of mankind, students of Christian Science should be searching the Scriptures for guidance, instruction, and reassurance as never before. Scriptural prophecy offers a great measure of illumination, for it opens up an immense field of human experience in which the influence of the omnipotence of God is made plain to all who have eyes to see.

Since Christian Science is exact Science, its teachings are based upon certain definite, fundamental statements. These fundamentals are briefly summarized in "the scientific statement of being," appearing on page 468 of the Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy.

Many of humanity's fears arise from false beliefs which are entertained about substance and body. Christian Science comes to dispel these fears.

One of the most interesting parts of the Old Testament is its "wisdom literature"—a group of books comprising Job, Proverbs, Ecclesiastes, and perhaps also the Song of Solomon. The authors of these books were the wise men or sages of Israel, whom Jeremiah mentions in conjunction with the priests and the prophets, who likewise contributed to the great library of the Old Testament: "The law shall not perish from the priest, nor counsel from the wise, nor the word from the prophet" ( Jer.