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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.

The tendency of the human mind has ever been to imagine that it has achieved something if it can only thrust back its explanations a stage. Thus, the ancient, who to the generally accepted theory that the world was supported on the back of an elephant added the confident assertion that the elephant stood on the back of a tortoise, imagined, no doubt, that he had contributed very considerably to the explanation of things.

Seneca tells of a great traveler who was complaining that he was never the better for his travels. "That is very true," said Socrates, "because you traveled with yourself.

Although a cursory glance might cause some readers to think the freedom of prohibition a paradox, metaphysical reasoning indicates that instead of interfering with individual liberty, prohibition, by denying to man sin, sickness, and death, reveals him as the unfettered idea of Mind—free from the bondage of evil. Divine intelligence maintaining its likeness, the forever untrammeled manifestation of consciousness, prohibits man from wrong acting, speaking, or thinking.

The story of Nehemiah's successful completion of the walls of Jerusalem is a most comforting one to the student of Christian Science. It portrays distinctly the different ways in which suggestion tries to impose itself as thought, activity, and causation, and shows how it must inevitably fail in the presence of a pure and vigorous realization of the fact stated by Mrs.

In the course of the steady progress of humanity, nothing has evidenced more clearly its advancement from barbarism to civilization than the development of business. In the dawn of human history men were obliged to care for themselves; each head of a family provided its food and shelter.