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Christian Scientists are rejoicing and praising God for the peace that fills their hearts. In an age of unrest and uncertainty, many are finding peace and security through the study and application of Christian Science.

In the familiar Scriptural account of Jacob's wrestling with an unnamed antagonist, many lessons of value to the student of Christian Science are to be found. Mary Baker Eddy makes an extended comment upon this narrative in "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures.

Christian Science teaches that God is all-knowing and all-seeing. At the same time, it teaches that God neither knows nor sees evil.

Mary and Martha, and their brother Lazarus, lived together in the little village of Bethany, in Judea. They were intimate and beloved friends of the great Master, Christ Jesus.

Christian Science in pointing the way to eternal peace, gives many remedies for the warring elements which frail humanity may be mesmerized to accept. When a remedy, as found in the spiritual truth contained in the Bible or in one of Mrs.

One may never have been a worshiper of idols, either in a supposedly enlightened sense or in a heathen sense, and yet may discover that he has been unwittingly holding in thought images or beliefs that are essentially as material as are idols of wood or stone. That these beliefs form no part of God's creation, and manifest no true intelligence or power, is proved as one learns to demonstrate the truths of Christian Science.

The appearing of the Christ, Truth, in Christian Science has roused the world. The human consciousness, beclouded with sin and sickness, is being illuminated by the penetrating rays of divine light.

On the seething ocean of human experience mortals must find the way to safety and security. There is need for a scientific way—a way of knowing and proving, by means of which men may steer their life course between the Scylla and Charybdis of false beliefs and human concepts, opinions, theories, material conditions, and mental evils—the world, the flesh, and the devil.

Reverently , in the opening words of the Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," Mary Baker Eddy speaks of faith. At the beginning of the chapter she quotes the words of Christ Jesus, "For verily I say unto you, That whosoever shall say unto this mountain, Be thou removed, and be thou cast into the sea; and shall not doubt in his heart, but shall believe that those things which he saith shall come to pass; he shall have whatsoever he saith.

The problem of achieving power and dominion confronts every phase of human existence now as it has done in the past. In an exaggerated and perverted sense, it becomes a craving for dominating others.