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THAT the unrest and upheaval in the industrial, civic, and nationalistic affairs of today are due to ignorance in some form or other, is undoubtedly true. There is cause for rejoicing, however, that even in the midst of distressing experiences hopeful hearts may see enlightenment dawning on all nations.

MANY sincere and honest people who read and love the Bible are not entirely clear as to the distinction between Jesus and Christ. Not a few individuals look for another appearance of the personal Jesus, and speak of this appearing as "the second coming of Christ.

ON Horeb's height Moses received the revelation of God as the great I AM. With feet unshod, in deepest reverence, he experienced this illuminating unfoldment and wonderingly considered the mission to the children of Israel to which God called him.

THE reign of God is already universal, ageless, rich with blessing to the obedient of every tongue, in every land. But when people speak of God's kingdom, or the kingdom of heaven, and conceive it in terms of "the kingdom of the earth," they would have war in heaven, and some thrust out of the kingdom, even as by war on earth there are expulsions and exile, obliterations of advantage and the sustainment of discord.

Despite the importance of Coverdale's and Matthew's Bibles, and other early sixteenth-century renderings of the Scriptures into English, it soon became evident that they were capable of improvement; and among those who undertook this task was one Richard Taverner. His chief qualifications for the work seem to have been that he possessed a due sense of the importance of his undertaking, and that he was a deep student of Greek, though his knowledge of Hebrew was somewhat scanty.

Christian Science reveals to human consciousness that since Life is God, Spirit, it must be self-existent, without beginning and without ending. The moment we begin to perceive that Life is Spirit, and that now we are living in a spiritually created, indestructible universe, the fear of age, incapacity, decrepitude, or any loss of faculties, begins to abate.

Christian Science students, after experiencing physical healing, naturally desire to apply the teachings of Christian Science to the problems which confront them in their business or social and domestic relationships. In so doing they may encounter trials which, if they fail not, will both strengthen their faith and increase their understanding of the laws through which the divine Mind expresses itself.

Christian Science is so easily understood that children accept it readily, but to the thought educated in the complexities of the material counterfeit of Truth, this very simplicity arouses doubt. The pride which comes from thinking that we are independent mortal beings, apart from God, finds it difficult to accept the humility whereby one realizes man's oneness with God, and the dependence on Him which this fact engenders.

What a source of comfort and inspiration are our Christian Science Wednesday testimony meetings, providing, as they do, a refuge for those who desire to withdraw from what may seem the monotonous tasks of daily routine! The weary wanderer, searching for rest, peace, and health, may cry in the words of Job, "Oh that I knew where I might find him!" He is assured that the answer to his query has been found when he listens to the inspiring testimonies given in Christian Science churches. Frequently, individuals paying their first visit to one of these meetings, have found therein the way of surcease from their troubles, renewed courage, and beautiful physical healing.

Every earnest student of Christian Science constantly strives for a clearer realization of the Christ. An exalted state of thought cannot be gained, however, by passively wishing for it, by feeble effort, or intermittent devotion to the study of the Bible and of our Leader's writings.