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In the midst of human dissension and threats of world-wide violence, Christian Science is proclaiming its vital message that universal harmony is a present spiritual fact. Above the seeming din of discord, listening humanity is again hearing the song of angels, "On earth peace, good will toward men.

Among the most important and possibly the least practiced of the provisions in the prayer which Christ Jesus gave to his disciples—the Lord's Prayer—is that which makes the forgiveness of one's transgressions conditional upon the petitioner's forgiveness of his fellow beings. Through long familiarity with the words of this ideal prayer one is apt to let it become a vain repetition, unless its spirit is being consciously assimilated into one's thoughts and life.

There are three steps expressed by the words "read," "meditate," "act," which it is necessary to take if one would advance in the application of Christian Science to the problems of human living. The modern farmer furnishes an illustration of this sequence.

An amusing story relates that the devil once said to a friend that he was going to make a new world. "What are you going to make it out of?" asked the friend.

The Christian Science organization has never been better understood or more strongly entrenched than it is today. The last Annual Meeting of The Mother Church hinted the strength and perpetuity of the Christian Science movement.

With loving eagerness does the student of Christian Science pore over the prayers of the master Christian, Christ Jesus, especially those recorded in the seventeenth chapter of John, where he says: "Neither pray I for these alone, but for them also which shall believe on me through their word; that they all may be one; as thou, Father, art in me, and I in thee, that they also may be one in us: .

Complete salvation from all evil—sin, disease, poverty, want, sorrow, death—is ready and waiting for every individual on earth. It is not located in some far-off heaven beyond the skies, nor is it an experience confined to a dim and distant future.

The revelation of Christian Science, which came to Mary Baker Eddy and was elucidated by her in the textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," sheds upon the inspired Biblical records the illumination of spiritual interpretation, and unfolds, for all mankind, the deep spiritual significance and practical import of the sacred Scriptures. In the light of this truth such unfoldment can be traced in relation to the Passover and the feast of unleavened bread, which were instituted by Moses in the dawn of Israelitish history.

Humanity is beset by the false belief of unjust decrees. It has been found that many of the undesirable edicts are self-imposed, and that all are traceable to human opinions or mistaken views of life mentally entertained and left undestroyed.

Jesus ' injunction to Peter, "Watch ye and pray, lest ye enter into temptation," is, if obeyed, a blessing and protection to all mankind, since there is no one who does not have temptation of some sort to meet. Throughout the epistles, as recorded in the New Testament, the warning to watch is sounded.