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A Considerable portion of the average human being's time is spent in wondering "why things happen. " To most of us life is apt to present a bewildering succession of incidents without a perceptible law of sequence.

The struggle of the human race to attain liberty and lasting peace is a constant exertion of a belief in an intelligence or power superior to itself, and not only separate therefrom but actually opposed thereto. The purposes of the efforts of the peoples in the dawn of civilization to appease the wrath or tempt the vanity of their gods, to whom they attributed the power of blessing or blasting the products of the earth and of men's labor, were in no wise different from the inherent fear in the human mind and its efforts to dominate or avoid the domination of matter, in this the twentieth century.

The account of creation as given in the first chapter of Genesis and the first few verses of the second chapter, ending with "God saw every thing that he had made, and, behold, it was very good," and, "Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them," is accepted by the student of Christian Science as the complete record of all that really has existence. Instead of accepting the suggestion of the so-called human mind when he wishes to test the validity of any concept, he endeavors to find whether it is included in this "very good" and only creation.

On page 252 of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy we read, "A knowledge of error and of its operations must precede that understanding of Truth which destroys error, until the entire mortal, material error finally disappears, and the eternal verity, man created by and of Spirit, is understood and recognized as the true likeness of his Maker. " This shows that when an effort is made to understand Truth, exposure of the error which is claiming to hide Truth is also necessary.

What constitutes true prayer, the kind that removes mountains; that says, "Take up thy bed and walk;" that heals and saves from all discordant conditions, both mental and physical, is a question that is well worth consideration, for many Scriptural promises are based thereon. On page 1 of the Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy, we read, "The prayer that reforms the sinner and heals the sick is an absolute faith that all things are possible to God,—a spiritual understanding of Him, an unselfed love.

" Infinite Mind is the creator. " writes Mrs.

The incident found in the nineteenth chapter of Matthew, of the young man who asked of Jesus, "What good thing shall I do, that I may have eternal life?" and when given the answer "went away sorrowful. " is a graphic example of the fruitless search for salvation without sacrifice of false gods.

What wonderful step it would be in a decidedly upward direction if the entire human family would to-day realize the singleness of their responsibility as individuals! As a matter of fact the entire distance of such a step is but the realization of the truth about man's individual relation to the one source of all intelligence and being. If all men would "be still" for a single moment, strictly mind their own business, give account of themselves in the light of true metaphysics, direct their thinking in the only path in which their true being exists,—their individual relation to the one and only source of existence,—the millennium would be experienced at that instant.

The human mind is made up of passions. For this reason there is no virtue it finds it harder to assimilate than that of toleration.

Broad , general policies, and even whole codes of political or business morals, often become crystallized in the popular mind into one short slogan or phrase or a single word. "Self-determination" is a recent and notable example.