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Each person is apt to regard as a necessity that which seems requisite for happiness or harmony. This leads him to believe that harmony or heaven is to be attained only by acquiring something which he seems to lack.

We are told by Matthew that John the Baptist came preaching and saying, "Repent ye: for the kingdom of heaven is at hand. " It is interesting to note that Jesus began his public ministry by using the same words.

To those of us who seek clarity of thought regarding God and man, and unselfish activity in His service, and who yearn to obey His will, the Church Manual by Mary Baker Eddy abounds with loving admonitions for our guidance. Of the value of the Manual to Christian Scientists, our revered Leader definitely states in "The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and Miscellany" (p.

The human race, periodically beset by distress and woe, has repeatedly sought surcease in a multitude of new theories and experimental practices, social, political, and economic, only to find itself sooner or later again sunk in the mire of gloom and depression. No permanent human remedy has ever been found.

Perhaps the most pronounced change which takes place in the consciousness of one who has gained an understanding of Christian Science lies in the perception of the fact that matter is not real, and therefore cannot be substantial. So accustomed had we become to regard the ground beneath our feet and the things by which we are apparently surrounded as tangible and therefore substantial, that a dawning realization that they do not constitute actual substance may at first seem somewhat disconcerting.

A day of glorious opportunity confronts Christian Scientists, and they must be awake to this fact and reap the blessings that lie before them. The genuine Christian Scientist, the diligent, wide-awake follower of the living Christ, knows that opportunities do not bring ease in matter, and that progress is not always through paths of flowers.

Christian Science teaches that the dream called disease, as well as all the rest of the sad array of prevalent unhappiness, confusion, or lack, is due to faults in human thinking, or the acceptance of some erroneous belief or supposititious law. Thus the primal need is change of thought.

The spiritual teaching of Noah's deliverance has always been recognised by Christians, who see in the ark a symbol of the Church into which they are admitted by baptism, God thereby graciously providing for their deliverance from the wrath and destruction due to sin. The story of the Flood was fittingly used by our Lord and the New Testament writers to convey lessons of judgment, righteousness, repentance, and faith.

Mrs. Eddy's parents differed from each other in individual ways, and both of them had more culture and more varied interests than were common in their day among men and women of equal prosperity.

While the Christian ideal of moral and spiritual perfection wins creedal acceptance, the misconception strongly persists that the attainment of perfection belongs to some uncertain future state, and that one whose life and thought resist this misconception is visionary and impractical. Holy Scripture refutes this claim, and Christian Science proves it false.