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Perhaps everyone is ready and willing to admit that the more clearly he understands a truth, the greater is the confidence he has in it and the less he is confused or disturbed by any arguments which might arise in an attempt to refute or reverse it. He remains secure in the truth proportionably to his understanding of it and his ability to prove it.

Nearly two thousand years ago the way of salvation for all mankind was taught and demonstrated by Christ Jesus, the Founder of Christianity. For centuries, however, the full, mighty, and practical import of his teachings was partially and temporarily obscured.

The understanding of God as "the great I am" ( Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, by Mary Baker Eddy, p. 587 ) throws a clearer light upon the naturalness and ever-availability of divine power.

With the eyes of the civilized world directed toward the problem of business, it is well for Christian Scientists seriously to ponder this question in order to gain a true idea of business. This is important, since the right idea of any subject corrects the wrong belief, and it is generally admitted that in the business world of today there is much which needs correction.

Causation is a subject the importance of which is difficult to exaggerate. Mrs.

IN "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" ( p. 66 ) Mrs.

HAD our Lord spoken naked spiritual truth, how many of his words, partly from his hearers' lack of interest in them, partly from their lack of insight, would have passed away from their hearts and memories, and left no trace behind them. But being imparted to them in this form [of parables], under some lively image, in some short and perhaps seemingly paradoxical sentence, or in some brief but interesting narrative, they aroused attention, excited inquiry, and even if the truth did not at the moment, by the help of the illustration used, find an entrance into the mind, yet the words must thus often have fixed themselves in their memories and remained by them.

" IN him [God] we live, and move, and have our being. " Paul's unequivocal, spiritually undebatable declaration sets forth man's habitation, environment, and individuality for all to contemplate and understand.

IN the chapter entitled "Creation" in our textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy, are these arresting words ( p. 266 ): "Would existence without personal friends be to you a blank? Then the time will come when you will be solitary, left without sympathy; but this seeming vacuum is already filled with divine Love.

EVERYBODY is searching for happiness, for harmony, for peace. And today, many of those who have endeavored to seek riches in material undertakings, to find happiness in sensuous amusements, and to experience joy in fleeting pleasures are learning the futility, the fruitlessness, of such seeking.