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As a result of a world-wide financial crisis and the political unrest which the present age has witnessed, humanity with its perplexing problems of fear, lack, poverty, unemployment, and distress is constantly turning to new experiments. Many plans are being formed with the hope of aiding the needy and of regulating wealth, production, agriculture, employment, and commerce.

It is a rather common assumption that the mental enlightenment out of which human progress is born is the result of one form or another of scholastic enterprise and endeavor. Research in the analysis and synthesis of factual and objective knowledge is credited with having provided us with the bases for innumerable advances in the well-being of mankind, especially in contemporary civilization.

Paul of Tarsus, that valiant campaigner for Christianity, sent a message to the church at Corinth which has a special significance for Christian people today. "Though we walk in the flesh," he wrote, "we do not war after the flesh: (for the weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but mighty through God to the pulling down of strong holds).

The fact that only effort based upon the truth about God and man is productive of good fruit is coming to be realized by many throughout the world. People in many walks of life are more and more turning to the infinite divine Mind for guidance.

" Beloved , let us love one another: for love is of God. " This gentle entreaty of John is still echoing down the centuries, never in human history finding a greater need for attention and obedience thereto than at the present moment.

The desire for progress is deeply ingrained in human nature. It animates the motives of the average individual from his early period of development, when, as a child, he seeks advancement in his school studies and an increase of skill in sports and games.

The world is filled with plans for gaining abundance. The earnest thought given to the care of the needy and to the supply of those who have not, is a hopeful sign of today.

The business of man is expressing God. The high occupation of the real man is continuous and eternal expression of divine Mind's qualities.

Despite the general acceptance of the Septuagint, prepared in Egypt about the third century b. c, there were other scholars who, in the succeeding centuries, undertook the provision of alternative Greek rendering of the Hebrew Scriptures.

A simple , profound statement in the Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy, which is often repeated, frequently applied, and dearly loved is that found on page 494 : "Divine Love always has met and always will meet every human need. " It conveys promise, assurance, and fulfillment, and through the application of the truth therein many have been healed of sickness, sorrow, and lack.