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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.

Christian Science teaches that objects in the world of mortal sense and the so-called laws which seem to govern the phenomena relating to them, are but the products of mortal mind beliefs and that they are counterfeits of spiritual ideas and of the immutable laws through which divine activity is expressed. To one who had spent years in studying and teaching the so-called natural sciences, the uncompromising claim of Christian Science that there is but one true Science, that of infinite Mind, came somewhat as a shock.

An acquaintance with the affairs of the world to-day, if it does nothing else, reveals beyond all cavil that humanity is sorely in need of help; for it seems that never in mortal history has there been more of woe and human misery than to-day, and never before have so many sufferers cried out to be delivered from their distresses, and hungered so for something—they know not what. Every day brings to us new examples of this great hunger, and every hour we are reminded of the counsel of our revered Leader, found on page 570 of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," where she says: "Millions of unprejudiced minds— simple seekers for Truth, weary wanderers, athirst in the desert—are waiting and watching for rest and drink.