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The year 1920 witnesses the commemoration of the tercentenary of the Pilgrim Fathers' departure from the Old World for the shores of the New. In the summer of 1620 a little band of men and women after much careful thought and prayer left their homes and country for a new place where, as pioneers of a freer and less material thought, they could worship God according to the demands which enlightenment made upon him.

Perhaps the last though by no means the latest outpost on the field of strife and divisions among men is so-called racial antipathy. A study of the Old Testament on this point reveals that, early in the Adamdream chronicled in Genesis after the first chapter, mankind divided into hostile camps.

Many of the world's greatest discoveries have been unfolded to some one through the simplest of experiences. An event, perhaps of everyday life, which had never before meant anything, has suddenly been the means of opening up new vistas of thought.

It often occurs that a first impression of a particular subject, person, or thing is an indication of a future line of conduct or attitude, though at the moment of the impression no particular significance attached to the incident. The writer well remembers his first impression of what little he grasped of Christian Science and its meaning, when it was explained that Mind is the only real power, the only energizing force or cause of existence, and that Mind is infinite good.

The law of God is ever active, right here and everywhere, this minute and eternally,—and that is the only real activity there is, ever was, or ever will be. Now if you can conceive of anything that has power to obstruct, check, clog, or oppose this omnipotent, omnipresent law of God, then you have a false concept, wholly mental, to contradict and correct.

When Jesus asked his disciples, "Whom do men say that I the Son of man am?" his works before men were many. He had stilled the tempest, raised Jairus' daughter, fed the multitude, and in countless ways proved the allness and oneness of God and the divine idea.

On page 452 of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy we read this concise and impressive sentence, "Right is radical. " When we thoughtfully consider the meaning of these words we find a positive declaration which convinces us of the truth of its statement, and the statement admits of no argument.

That Christian Science is a divine revelation can be doubted by no one who has been able to heal disease and discord through its application, or even by one who has been healed through the understanding of another. A divine revelation is in its very nature complete for the purpose to which the revelation pertains, for nothing incomplete can be of divine origin.

The tiller of the soil plants and harvests that the body may be fed; the garment worker toils that it may be clothed; the laborer builds houses to protect it from the elements; and millions give time, thought, and effort to the preparation of countless contrivances catering to its so-called needs. At some point in their experience all see the hopelessness from a material standpoint, and ask themselves the why and wherefore, and cry out to be delivered.

Our modern social organization, wrought out in elaborate detail under the discipline of the industrial revolution of the last century, is now everywhere being subjected to the test of self-justification. Some of the charges against it are proved and many modifications and adjustments are being made in its methods and processes.