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There are few, if any, who will deny the truth of the statement that there is an omnipotent and omnipresent power we call God, which is able to do all things at all times, and which is capable of meeting every need of humanity. The doubt has never been so much as to its existence as to its availability.

When God called Moses for the great mission of leading the Israelites out of their captivity in Egypt [their bondage to material beliefs], the suggestions of fear and doubt immediately came to tempt him: "And Moses said unto God, Who am I.

What is basic is a question of causation. The riddle of the ages is the supposition of material causation with its consequent material effects and laws—its Adam man, its rib woman, and the loss of harmonious being.

On page 238 of "Miscellaneous Writings" those wonderful lines written by Mrs. Eddy, if studied faithfully, must arrest our thought and cause a self-examination as to whether we have begun to perceive even dimly the true meaning of the word endurance.

The daily recurrence of human needs is a perplexing problem to the beginner in Christian Science, and past experience often leaves a doubt as to whether it is wise or safe to rely, for its solution, on the teaching of Jesus. This question is fundamental to the understanding of the relation of God and man, and if ignored will lead to confusion and fear in the thought of the student.

Satisfaction is a state of being toward which every member of the human race is striving, and this because human nature is ever yearning for something more than it has. It feels its own incompleteness and is therefore continually, restlessly looking for something to satisfy its longing for completion.

The right use of the ballot is much more than the lawful exercise of a function of citizenship. It is even greater than the duty one owes to the state and its interest.

He who really wants to progress in spiritual understanding will give time to his object. Now time may be considered like gold; it may seem scarce, but if we honestly examine our lives we find that we usually find time to do what we want to do, and if we want to give our precious hours to the gaining of spiritual understanding, we shall do so.

On page 282 of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," the Christian Science text book, Mrs. Eddy, speaking of "figures of being," says, "The circle represents the infinite without beginning or end; the straight line represents the finite, which has both beginning and end.

A POEM  by an anonymous writer has for its central theme the rather depressing assertion that "a bird with a broken wing never soars so high again. " It is one of many human maxims proved by Christian Science to be "foolishness with God," and as spiritual understanding lifts thought above materiality, it is proved that this false sense of things cannot limit right activity.