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THE experience of our Master, Christ Jesus, and of his disciples in the garden of Gethsemane on the night before his crucifixion furnishes a valuable lesson. It illustrates the fact, as taught in Christian Science, that salvation is individual, and that individual mental work or prayer is necessary.

WHAT a glorious example of unwavering trust and complete reliance on his Father's unerring wisdom the Psalmist expressed in these precious words: "I delight to do thy will, O my God: yea, thy law is within my heart"! Unquestionably, it was Christ Jesus' life-mission to do the will of his Father. A close study of the Gospels reveals the fact that his whole life, his teaching and works, including his victory over death, expressed his obedience to the divine will and wisdom.

IN dealing with the history of the world's progress and development, literature is rich with the courageous efforts of men to discover new lands, greater fields of expansion, more freedom of thought, and, above all, new opportunities to develop the highest concepts of living. Thus today we have a picture of the world almost totally discovered geographically, and we may be inclined to think that in this sense the human race has nothing more to discover.

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.

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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.