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The original term "citizen" denotes a person endowed with certain rights, privileges, and protection, as a native or naturalized resident of a state or country. It also denotes a member of a free, self-governing people.

Of all the problems that beset mankind there is one of which it may safely be said that it confronts every one sooner or later with the necessity of making a choice between two courses. Who is there who at one time or another has not been compelled to deliberate over the respective claims of the way that seemed right but unpopular, and the way that seemed easy because other people were following it? Hardly a problem presents itself to the individual but mass influence attempts to make itself felt, and while human thinking proceeds on the lines it usually does, so long will there be the necessity for safeguarding the individual thought from external aggression so that it may be preserved in the freedom which is its right.

Christian Science is a practical religion; that is why so many business men have to-day embraced its teachings. It has often been said drat the commercial code of honor could not be made to fit in with the teaching of the Sermon on the Mount.

As Mrs. Eddy says in "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" ( p.

In this age of complicated human problems, we hear much about cooperation and many are seeking for the oneness of thought among individuals and classes which will bring about and establish harmonious activity. We hear of cooperative systems on every hand and it is a clear indication of the fact that mankind are beginning to see that selfishness does not pay.

False education has led mankind to believe that substance is that only which is cognized by the physical senses. Chief among the ills of the human race thereby engendered is that which has given to the definition of medicine a material interpretation.

In the Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy, we read on page 233 : "When numbers have been divided according to a fixed rule, the quotient is not more unquestionable than the scientific tests I have made of the effects of truth upon the sick. The counter fact relative to any disease is required to cure it.

Because he had learned to obey God, Noah and his family dwelt safely within the ark when the rains came and flooded the land. The story of Noah must have been well known to the children of Israel when, centuries later, they journeyed through the wilderness after God had delivered them from their bondage in Egypt.

There is no term which suggests more of good and of ill than the word loyalty. Every darkest page of history has been illumined in some spot by the exhibition of a splendid devotion to a high ideal, while even the fairest annals of the doings of men have been marred by superstitious adherence to some low, ignoble sense of obligation.

No community or individual that seeks to eradicate disease accident by waging a campaign of fear, will ever succeed in the attempt, because fearing a thing means that the power of evil is believed in as a reality. One can never heal a disease so long as it is believed to be real or powerful.