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Almost without exception men continually search for something they do not seem to have—health, success, liberty, peace, or supply. Some anxiously turn from one hope to another, and how often they labor in vain, because through lack of spiritual understanding their desires are selfish and inferior, and they do not travel the way Truth points out.

" God pours the riches of His love into the understanding and affections, giving us strength according to our day" (Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy, p. 5 ).

Spiritual awareness, or an awareness or consciousness of the things of Spirit, is the goal of every sincere seeker after Truth. It brings heaven, bliss, harmony into human experience in its glorious adventure from sense to Soul.

How often has one felt on looking back, ruefully perhaps, over a day that has seemed to bristle with small difficulties and petty disappointments, If only I had exercised more patience! As one by one the experiences of such a day are reviewed, it is often seen that the unkind criticism had been uncalled for, the quick frown unnecessary, the hasty retort futile. Nothing worth while was accomplished by that sudden outburst of irritability.

In a world torn by conflicting theories of government, when the cruel doctrine of force is loudly proclaimed as the only practical method of maintaining peace, it is truly refreshing to find in Christian Science an ideal platform upon which all who sincerely desire to live at peace with mankind can stand together. The platform of Christian Science, which is set out between pages 330 and 340 of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy, derives its authority from the Bible and constitutes the working basis of true metaphysical practice.

From birth mankind is in a constant state of either apparently progressing according to so-called material laws or suffering from violating them. The child develops to maturity and then declines, according to these laws.

The Bible emphatically affirms that God is good and omnipotent. It also reveals that He is Mind.

Christ Jesus gave to the world the highest Christian standard in his divine command, "Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect. " Although this command is undeviating in its righteous demand, mankind is slowly, yet perceptibly, awakening to the possibility of its fulfillment.

At some time in our lives, the insistent questions come to each one of us: Why am I here? How came I to be here, and for what purpose? In the endeavor to answer these questions thought begins to travel in many directions for something that is comforting, something that will quiet longings and still unsatisfied desires. These questions and the effort to find satisfying answers revolve continuously and inevitably around the one central point, namely, What is existence, or, What is the meaning of existence? The revelation of Christian Science, through Mary Baker Eddy, unfolds the meaning of true existence as substance, reality, good.

OF all the famous manuscripts of the Bible, the Sinaitic Manuscript — or "Codex Sinaiticus," as it is called by scholars — has probably the most romantic history, besides being in the front rank in historical importance. In the year 1844, a renowned Biblical scholar named Tischendorf, while visiting the Monastery of St.