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The stress of the past several years has brought problems to not a few pertaining to employment and supply. Many who have spent years in some line of business or activity have found themselves faced with the necessity of a change of occupation through no fault of their own.

On page 12 of "The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and Miscellany" Mary Baker Eddy makes this pertinent statement, "We own no past, no future, we possess only now. "  And farther on in the same paragraph she adds, "Faith in divine Love supplies the ever-present help and now, and gives the power to 'act in the living present.

The contribution to human welfare made by Mary Baker Eddy through her discovery of Christian Science, is of such far-reaching importance that few, if any, today realize the full extent of its higher implications. None knew as well as did Mrs.

In one of Jesus' parables it is related that according to the custom of those days two men went up to offer prayer in the temple. One was a Pharisee.

Because of our Master's sufferings, the cross later became the emblem of Christianity. The theologians of his day, whose superficiality was harassed by the truth Jesus taught, believed that in subjecting him to this dire experience they had proved him to be a malefactor and had removed him from their horizon.

" Beloved let us love one another; for love is of God; and every one that loveth is born of God, and knoweth God. " One who deals with those seeking relief through Christian Science from claims of sickness and other discordant conditions, sees that the great need is to understand more about divine Love and to use this understanding in expressing forgiveness, patience, gentleness, meekness, kindness, and unselfishness in everyday living.

Mortals are prone to circumscribe the joy and usefulness of life within a limited number of years. After the period designated as "middle life," there is supposed to be a recession of powers until such qualities as alertness, assurance, perception, poise, business acumen, and physical vigor are irreparably impaired, if not wholly destroyed by reason of the flight of years.

Noumenon and phenomenon, Mind and idea, necessarily correspond. Phenomenon must partake of the nature of noumenon; that is, idea of the nature of Mind.

The inspiration of the Hebrew Scriptures is their revelation of the allness of God, in contradistinction to the beliefs of mortals in another being of unlike nature and influence. In the allegory of Eden, which has its counterpart in each human consciousness, the serpent represented the suggestion that there was a condition of things besides good, and that it was proper for Adam and Eve to be acquainted with it.

On page 10 of her Message to The Mother Church for 1898, entitled "Christian Science versus Pantheism," our revered Leader speaks of "the grace of God" as "the effect of God understood. " Truly this is a profound definition.