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UNITY of the people of the earth has been the ideal of statesmen, rulers, and ecclesiastics at different times in the history of the world. Men have given their fortunes and some their lives to achieve such a result.

What vague and diverse ideas have been entertained about heaven at different times! Many agree in imagining it to be a wonderful place where there is no pain or sorrow, and where everybody is happy. Yet these very people are terrified at the thought of death, which they think they must undergo in order to reach this wonderful place! Why is this? Surely it is because mortal mind thinking never does arrive at any satisfactory conclusion! It is so easily changed, and so readily influenced by persons or conditions, that after all is said and done it does not feel too sure about the conclusions of its own reasoning, and so is doubtful! Our concept of heaven undergoes a great change as we study the Bible in the light which Christian Science throws upon it; and what is such a joy is that one loses all fear regarding it.

Most people in a general way admit the necessity for obedience. Not so many, however, are willing to admit the need of obedience to the divine will; while all too few are willing to pay the price of obedience by eliminating from their thinking hatred, envy, jealousy, anger, resentment, and other evil qualities.

" My soul, wait thou only upon God; for my expectation is from him," writes the Psalmist. Can we say likewise? If our expectation is entirely from God, we shall expect good, and only good; we shall expect that only which is like God.

Human thought is inclined to regard a resplendent material structure in which God is praised with dignified, artistic ritualistic ceremony, as the correct idea of Church. Although such a church may be the outcome of much that is good, it may be far from expressing the idea of Church which Jesus presented.

The inherent ability bestowed upon man by his creator to think righteous thoughts and manifest good, makes it possible for us always to express Godlikeness. While we possess no power in and of ourselves, by reflecting God's attributes we manifest God's nature in our thoughts and acts.

David was convinced of God's constant care when he sang: "How precious also are thy thoughts unto me, O God! how great is the sum of them! If I should count them, they are more in number than the sand. " This surely is an acknowledgment of the allness of Mind.

At noon on a hot June day a rather weary Christian Scientist entered a railway station in a foreign city to find that she had just missed a suburban train and must wait some time for another. There was not much to regret in that, but after a morning spent in an apparently fruitless effort to carry through a piece of business rendered difficult by an imperfect knowledge of the language and customs of the country, the delay seemed to intensify a feeling of loneliness and discouragement which had crept in; and as she seated herself to wait on the platform she realized that there was mental work to be done.

Happiness is the great desire, and should be the ultimate realization, of everyone; but how many mortals reflect the spontaneous joy and peace which are the expressions of true happiness? In "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" ( p. 57 ) Mrs.

Throughout the Bible we find many references to the land of promise, which God covenanted to give to those obedient to His commands. This promised land is the heritage of God's children, the place of "peaceable habitation" mentioned by Isaiah.