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The world has heard much about the sick and sinning race of Adam. Mortals have always thought of themselves as men, generated materially, and as separate entities, multiplying as the sands of the seashore, despite the mortality which continues its ceaseless ravages; and each with a separate mind.

Although Joshua was able to perceive and demonstrate that united effort, under the direction of divine Principle, would remove serious obstacles to human progress Spiritward, it remained for Christ Jesus, out of the richness of his understanding, to show us that God, the infinite provider, showers His blessings equally upon all. Had Cain looked up to Spirit instead of down to matter, he would have perceived the necessity for adjusting his thought, in accord with divine reality; he would not have succumbed to the evil belief that another could deprive him of the approval of God.

Throughout the ages mankind has been daily and hourly choosing, and acting upon the choice made; and throughout the ages, whether men realized it or not, this choice has always been between thoughts and desires which led toward spirituality—true happiness, life, and harmony—and those which led away from it into materiality, error, and discord. Moses said to the Israelites, "I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing: therefore choose life, that both thou and thy seed may live.

One begins the practice of Christian Science the moment he begins to apply it in his daily life. Whatever our occupation, our surroundings, our problems, our difficulties may be, each one is free to enter upon this work.

In "The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and Miscellany" ( p. 181 ), Mrs.

The world in general is beginning to see that there is no pleasure or satisfaction in idleness. It is realizing that fruitful activity is necessary to well-being and happiness.

It is quite a common thing to hear the remark made by those unenlightened by the spiritual illumination of Truth, as Christian Science reveals it, that the day of miracles is past. It is popularly considered that the healing of the sick by purely spiritual means is entirely supernatural, the result of the suspension, or in direct violation, of divine law, the infringement of which Christ Jesus was enabled to compass for the purpose of proving his Messiahship.

In "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" our Leader writes ( p. 426 ): "The discoverer of Christian Science finds the path less difficult when she has the high goal always before her thoughts, than when she counts her footsteps in endeavoring to reach it.

There is something pathetic in the Scriptural account of our Savior's brief interview with Nicodemus, who, under cover of night, sought counsel of him who spake "as one having authority, and not as the scribes. " So gentle and persuasive were Jesus' words that this "master of Israel" knew he could listen to them with profit.

Throughout the Christian centuries and up to the present time, many have looked for the reappearing of Christ Jesus on the plane of human consciousness; and this has sometimes been spoken of as the second coming. Even little children who have heard this thought advanced, have often longed for the healing presence of the Christ, of which we are told in the gospels; but seldom, if ever, have they received much encouragement from their inquiries in this direction; and so, with most of their elders, they came to look for deliverance from the woes of mortal experience in another world.