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To the student of Christian Science the statement that God meets every need is always a comforting one but very often a misleading one. He is apt immediately to have dreams of sudden material wealth or worldly possessions as his reward for turning to God as the source of supply instead of looking to the old human sources to which he has been accustomed to look.

In these days of adjustment and reconstruction much is said about labor and the workingman, and a correct and mutual understanding of these terms is necessary for arriving at harmonious relations and contentment. At present there seems to be much unrest, whatever the work may be: in politics, in business, in manual labor among men, in housework among women.

There is an old maxim that there is nothing new under the sun. And yet much favorable comment is made regarding that which the human mind has named originality.

History presents few more impressive scenes than that in which the long-time leader of Israel's hosts ascends the steeps of Pisgah, that he may lift up his eyes "to the westward, and northward, and southward, and eastward," and from this commanding summit wing his way out of the limitations of mortal sense. He had found himself, through humility and obedience, while tenting amid the shadowy steeps of Sinai, and, later, had faced unflinchingly the fury of one of the mightiest of the Pharaohs.

Moses, in the Ten Commandments gives us instruction as to what is the very basis of Christianity. These commands were not given to us as arbitrary rules showing divine authority, with a demand for blind obedience thereto, but, on the contrary, they reveal to us, through Moses' tenderest solicitude for the welfare of the children of Israel, in accord with his inspiration from on high, the law of God which when understood and obeyed results in absolute freedom from all that claims to bind and oppress.

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.