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If that stirring admonition enunciated by Christ Jesus centuries ago, "What I say unto you I say unto all, Watch," had been sufficiently understood and heeded by Christendom, the world would doubtless be a far better place in which to live than it appears to be today. There is much significance in the fact that the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, Mary Baker Eddy, caused the statement to be inscribed across the front cover of the Christian Science Sentinel, as a loving reminder to the readers of that periodical, of a necessary Christian duty.

There is much definite evidence in the Bible and in the writings of Mary Baker Eddy showing that humility is an essential and vital part of true spirituality. On page 142 of the Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," our Leader says, "As in Jesus' time, so to-day, tyranny and pride need to be whipped out of the temple, and humility and divine Science to be welcomed in.

" Spiritual living and blessedness are the only evidences, by which we can recognize true existence and feel the unspeakable peace which comes from an all-absorbing spiritual love. " Thus does the revered and loved Leader of Christian Science, Mary Baker Eddy, express, on page 264 of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," her profound conviction that there is no way to experience an abundant joy of life, a genuine contentment, an "unspeakable peace" except through an exclusive and wholehearted love for the realities of Spirit—even a spiritual love that is all-absorbing! Spirit is God, and God is infinite Mind; therefore Spirit is always expressed through divine ideas, never by means of matter or through the physical senses.

How wonderfully similar to our own task was that of the woman at the sepulcher! Of her Mrs. Eddy writes in "The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and Miscellany" ( p.

God is the only power, the only Mind. To His spiritual idea, man, there is no secondary power or creator, and no lesser existence than God's expression, no unlikeness to God.

In Revelation, St. John writes to the church at Ephesus: "I know thy works, and thy labour, and thy patience, and how thou canst not bear them which are evil:.

" Have faith in God" is the admonition with which Christ Jesus introduced one of his emphatic statements concerning the power of prayer. And with prayer he accomplished beneficent results.

" The multitude of all the nations that fight against Ariel, .

The prophet Jeremiah presents an interesting contrast between two states of consciousness when he says, "The man that trusteth in man, and maketh flesh his arm, and whose heart departeth from the Lord .

Humanity's troubles are ceasing in the measure that its mistaken sense of existence is being exchanged for the truth of existence. That is the reason why throughout the centuries the search for knowledge and truth is such a fascinating activity for the more enlightened among mankind.