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What a thrill even the word democracy brings to the heart of one who truly loves his brother man and expresses this love in the fervent desire that each and all shall have the same rights and privileges which he himself desires. Even among the vast number of those who believe in minds good and evil, intelligent and unintelligent, the thought of democracy always tends to awaken hope and stimulate to greater effort, since' its endeavor is to assure some measure of responsibility to each and to open the door of opportunity to all.

Misapprehension of divine law is a serious obstacle in the way of our continuous progress, prosperity, peace, and happiness. Our problem is to remove this obstacle, and this can be accomplished through Christian Science, which is bringing to the world a right apprehension of God's law.

Because the display of arrogance, conceit, and pride of worldly wisdom has usually been considered the only way in which people have failed to fulfil this particular beatitude, "Blessed are the meek," an idea of meekness has been fostered which is more limited than that exemplified in the Bible. While it is true that one cannot entertain these false beliefs, or even tenacious human opinions, and at the same time realize meekness, error has other ways whereby the treasure of meekness may be stolen from us, and one of these agencies is fear.

Organization is an important element of national institutions, constructive operations, and comprehensive enlightenment. Its purpose is to establish order, develop efficiency, protect liberty, and promote progress.

For the readers of Mrs. Eddy's remarkable and epoch-making volume, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," there could be nothing more challenging to their preconceived theories and beliefs than the statement on page 468 that "time is no part of eternity.

Absence from the body no longer hints at any post mortem achievement to the student of Christian Science. He thinks of it as a present-day victory over the corporeal senses, and then starts in to "fight the good fight of faith" and to lay hold of eternal Life, which was never in or of matter.

It is not difficult, when one considers the cause of Christian Science as a whole, to understand why this movement has been the object of continued persecution from opposing material systems, theories, falsely styled sciences, and scholastic theology. To these material modes of human thought Christian Science seems tremendously iconoclastic, and mortal mind ever resists what it recognizes as its destroyer.

In the Messianic forecast found in the third chapter of Malachi, we read, "Behold, I will send my messenger, and he shall prepare the way before me: and the Lord, whom ye seek, shall suddenly come to his temple .

His emergence from material beliefs is the measure of a man's freedom. Jesus' immortal promise of liberation from all evil, "If ye continue in my word, then are ye my disciples indeed; and ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free," was imperfectly apprehended even by his immediate followers, for mortal thought casts off its trammels reluctantly unless compelled by stress and pain.

We have had many beautiful and helpful lessons on the obedience and fidelity of Joshua's soldiers who compassed the wall of Jericho and brought it low, but seldom does our thought turn to those within the wall or on its turrets. What did this army mean to them? Possibly they looked upon them as a band of foolish marchers, buoyed up by false hopes, lured on by their leader's command, following the trumpet-call of the priests in advance.