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A VERY general belief of mortals is that of lack or poverty. Like the Biblical character who would tear down his barns and build greater ones to hold more of material things, or the present-day struggler who would have a bank balance greater than that of his neighbor, many mortals have considered the quest for material wealth the main object of life.

THERE sometimes comes into the experience of the student of Christian Science a sense of deep humiliation because he has seemed to fail in something which he had set about to do. In fact, sometimes he may have seemed to be compelled to take what looks to him like a backward step, to return to a position which he felt he had outgrown.

FROM time immemorial mortals have speculated on the nature of the kingdom of heaven and how it is to be obtained. There are probably as many concepts of heaven as there are individual opinions of that which constitutes human happiness; and the desire to gain heaven has been prompted by the individual's idea of what heaven means to him, rather than what heaven really is, as it exists in divine Mind.

" NOW the Lord is that Spirit: and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty," wrote Paul to the Corinthians. Our beloved Leader, Mary Baker Eddy, tells us in the Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" ( p.

THE essence of Christian Science is the demonstrable revelation that Spirit and spiritual existence alone are real. When this great truth of being is accepted, whatever is unlike pure Mind or Spirit must, obviously, be conceded as unreal and transitory.

IT was John who said in his first epistle, "Beloved, now are we the sons of God;" and in Revelation, "And I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and the first earth were passed away. " What a glorious outlook, —to know that every child of the infinite God is in His glorious sunshine, living, moving, and having his being in divine Mind, not in matter! No longer need the tears of perplexity and self-pity flow because of earth's fleeting shadows; for, instead, the gaze may penetrate beyond the seeming mists and claim the promised birthright, the inheritance of the sons of God.

STEPPING out into the street one day, the writer found herself surrounded by a mist; only for a short distance ahead could she see the way. Yet, knowing that the road, trees, flowers, and cars were all in their accustomed places, even though she could not see them, she started forward.

CHRISTIAN SCIENCE disposes of the belief of evil through the understanding that God, good, is the only cause. In demonstrating the fact of God's allness, however, students of Christian Science do not ignore the claims of evil or deny that these claims appear to have an origin.

IN the restless effort of mankind to make the most out of mortal existence many display much zeal. With the industry of ants they accumulate riches, increase knowledge, and strive to build up happiness from the material of their mortal concepts.

SOMETIMES the earnest Christian Scientist wonders why his problem is not solved; why he does not seem able to rise more quickly above the fallacies of mortal thinking. Searching consciousness vigorously, he looks here and there for the obstructing evil, only to find that the more he searches, the more real it seems to become until, befogged in discouragement, he cries out for deliverance.