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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.

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.