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ALL Christian Scientists learn that there are times in their experience when it is necessary to prove their ability correctly to apply the truth in the working out of seemingly trying problems. At such times they must be alert to see the solving of these problems as aids to progress.

ON page 181 of "The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and Miscellany" Mrs. Eddy writes: "Progress is spiritual.

ALL through Mrs. Eddy's writings emphasis is laid upon the need of knowing what is real and detecting what is unreal.

THE complex civilization of today presents to youth, as to all, a changing order of social, economic, and governmental life which involves the fundamental relation of the individual to society. The resultant conflicting currents of thought are certainly not of the making of any one group; nevertheless, they demand of youth, as of all others, alertness and courage in making readjustments to the new order which is steadily replacing the old.

ON pages 137 and 138 of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" our Leader, Mrs. Eddy, points out that the church established by Jesus was founded upon "the God-power which lay behind Peter's confession of the true Messiah," not upon the personal Peter.

Elijah was among the greatest and most original of the Hebrew prophets; indeed it is in him that Hebrew prophecy first appears as a great spiritual and ethical power, deeply affecting the destiny and religious character of the nation. He lived and worked under Ahab, contending with heroic courage for Yahwè as the sole god of Israel, and refusing to make any terms with plans favored at the royal court for uniting the worship of the national God with that of the Tyrian Baal.

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Christian scientists are ever ready to express their sincere gratitude for their religion; they are generous in their deep and earnest protestations of the great benefits they have enjoyed from the utilization of Christian Science, but this gratitude must be expressed in action. In order to become more active in expressing gratitude, it is important for each Christian Scientist to recognize and to cherish the orderly process of Truth's unfolding in his experience; for in this way he is better equipped to recall to himself, and to share with others, the practical, helpful means through which he has been led into a conscious possession of spiritual knowledge.

Religious services, or teaching and healing, marked the very beginning of Christ Jesus' public ministry, and the Gospels show that the disciples accompanied him and participated in these ministrations. The Bible records how Jesus had prepared himself for his mighty service to mankind by prayer and fasting, by overcoming temptation in the wilderness, and then proving his preaching in "healing all manner of sickness and all manner of disease among the people.

MARY BAKER EDDY , whose spiritual vision was clear enough to discover the truth of being, has defined Christian Science, her discovery, as "the law of God, the law of good, interpreting and demonstrating the divine Principle and rule of universal harmony" ( Rudimental Divine Science, p. 1 ).