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IN the study of Christian Science we learn that the purely spiritual record of creation is given in the first chapter of Genesis, when God said "Let there be ," and there was, and all was good, and God ended His work. The 4th verse of the 2nd chapter introduces "Lord God" (the Jewish concept of God).

FEAR appears as an assertion of being in opposition to the one great universal essence, divine Love. The Scriptural statements are therefore significant: God is Love.

Wherever we go, or into whatsoever home we enter, from the humble cot to the mansion of luxury, there confronts us now, more than in the past, a general unrest among mankind. Individuals have an indescribable, insatiable, hungering desire for a something they do not possess and cannot grasp, however persistently they may strive to obtain it.

Some one with whom I was talking a short time since remarked, "The one thing I object to in Christian Scientists is that they are too self-satisfied. They always say that everything is all right and do not depend enough upon individual effort.

Before I discerned the light of Christian Science, upon the restless sea of human existence, often I, impatient, made request, in words like these: "Lord God, Thou knowest best how willing I am to do my service well, but how narrow are the bounds wherein I dwell, how straitened is my life, and how small my sphere. I am without a home and without a human tie of any kind.

IF Christian Science were merely theoretical; if it were not applicable to the minutest detail of daily life, then, instead of its marvelous growth, Christian Science would speedily sink into oblivion. But because of its applicability to all phases and conditions of human life; because it brings health to the sick, redemption to the sinner, and peace to the sorely troubled; it appeals to those to whom all other avenues of escape from the ills of earth, seem to be closed.

HE that dwelleth in the secret place of the most High shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty. " Only that is stable which abideth "under the shadow of the Almighty.

When we begin to feel a sense of inharmony, seemingly from some person or in some person, it is a definite call to let our leaven be more at work in the destruction of universal error which is impersonal. When any person manifests error it is solely because he has opened the door of consciousness to wrong thought, has allowed himself to become an avenue for error.

IF we literally accept the account given in the second and third chapters of Genesis as a statement of facts which actually occurred, what conclusions as to the nature of God should we derive therefrom? First: that He engendered in man the capacity to sin, which presupposes a taste and inclination for sin; Second: that He made him blind to the nature of temptation; Third: that God Himself assisted in tempting man by putting "The Tree of Knowledge" into the garden and creating a talking serpent, which was the instrument for tempting man, who was perfectly innocent and quite unable to prevent being endowed with such weakness and imperfection of character. Can we believe all this of a just and merciful God? of a loving Father such as Jesus taught us to regard Him? No human parent with a trace of love would act in that way towards innocent, helpless creatures.

" Take therefore no thought for the morrow: for the morrow shall take thought for the things of itself. Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof.