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In these days of conflicting mental forces, when experimental forms of government are everywhere at war with established customs, it is of paramount importance to understand that there is a divine law, which transcends human frailty, and which can be invoked in the interests of human welfare. In the Preface to the Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," Mary Baker Eddy writes (p.

A song in the night! One thinks of night as darkness, stillness, inactivity; and song is associated with gladness, joy, thanksgiving. Yet it is a song in the night that often awakens one to light, beauty, and peace.

On page 583 of the Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," Mrs. Eddy defines "Church" in part as "the structure of Truth and Love; whatever rests upon and proceeds from divine Principle.

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.