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Jesus said, "The kingdom of God cometh not with observation: neither shall they say, Lo here! or, lo there! for, behold, the kingdom of God is within you. " The truth of these words was once brought home to me very forcefully, when we were traveling in a part of the country far distant from our home.

Throughout all time, mankind have felt that somewhere beyond the limited sphere of their knowledge, beyond the horizon of the seen, there exists a great cause and creator who has made all that was made. Moreover, men have felt that a knowledge of the creator would bring peace and contentment; and they have sought this knowledge through many avenues,—magic, sorcery, divination, rites, and ceremonies.

The Principle of Christian Science is eternal and unchanging; its truths are eternal facts which can never vary from their inherent perfection. The application of this fact to human lives and conditions is according to immutable law, and the salvation and healing which it brings can only come in obedience to this law.

There has never been a time in the history of the world when the desire to know has been more pronounced than it is today. The world is waking up.

One of the most striking examples of individual consciousness awakening to the demands of Truth, is found in the story of Hezekiah's encounter with the Assyrian army, as told in the second book of Kings. He ascended the throne of Judah when quite a young man, and with a firm and uncompromising hand set to work to wipe out of the land everything that savored of idolatry.

The Christian Scientist is sometimes confronted with the argument that inasmuch as God and His spiritual creation are the only realities of being, there is no occasion for giving special consideration to error's alleged secret methods of working, no necessity for taking up in detail the means by which the baseless falsity of mortal mind purports to advance itself. It is speciously argued that the ground is covered in refuting with the truth such manifestations of false belief as challenge attention in the due course of events; in short, that it is ill-advised to "make so much of animal magnetism.

Until instructed by Christian Science to make practical use of the Scriptural declaration that in God "we live, and move, and have our being," how easily is a mortal's outlook on life, and the state of his health, affected by the atmospheric changes of heat and cold, of storm and sunshine. Taught by materia medica and hygiene to consider himself a victim of circumstances, of which sudden changes in the weather play a very important part, he implicitly believes that a cold wave or a continuation of rain is directly responsible for some ailment from which he may at the time be suffering.

The Greek philosopher Antisthenes founded a sect whose purpose was to find and apply a remedy for the vices, prevailing then as now, of avarice, luxury, and undue ambition, to inculcate a love of virtue, and to bring about simplicity of manners. Surely the ancient philosopher and his sect were inspired by praiseworthy motives! Yet the followers of Antisthenes speedily degenerated, and were finally known as cynics, a term of reproach.

Moses seems to have been the first among men to realize and to demonstrate that there is but one Ego. To him God was the great "I am that I am.

Christian Science , as its name implies, stands for Christianity as well as Science. It can therefore be practised only from a Christian standpoint; that is, in accord with the spirit as well as the letter of the Master's teachings.