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How relevant is the Bible to our daily life? Has it anything to offer that is useful in meeting today's major problems of human existence? We can begin to find out by studying the history of one of its characters. What does Moses' experience have to say to us in regard to life as opposed to death? When he was forty years old, the Old Testament tells us, he killed a man in a fit of indignation and fled to the desert.

"Let's not get caught in the game of one-upmanship," said an alert friend, breaking off a religious discussion that was fast becoming overblown with posed virtue. Spirituality has never been something to put on and take off at will.

Christian Science reveals that there is abundant power for good available to us through the divine Mind, God, to whom all things are possible. This is the Mind that was in Christ Jesus, and which enabled him to accomplish the remarkable things he did.

The light of the biblical statement that God made man in His own image reveals man spiritual and good, the changeless, sinless expression of divine Love's allness. This is the man we are in our true spiritual being as the reflection of God, Spirit.

As a young child I feared eternal life almost as much as death. The prospect of a never-ending sequence of hours, stretching on and on, without climax or conclusion, droning through eternity, terrified me.

Do you have a strong and healthy body? If so, you can be grateful. That is as it should be.

How can we best supply the world's desperate human needs? A recognized authority on population tells us that "currently, about 450 million enjoy affluence and abundance. Five to six times that number live in parsimony, scarcity, or serious shortage.

Science and Health by Mary Baker Eddy, the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, had its first readers late in 1875, almost one hundred years ago. Later Mrs.

Tarsus, the home of Paul's childhood, held a strategic position in the Mediterranean world. A few miles farther inland lay what were called the Cilician Gates, a narrow pass through which all traffic must make its way if it was to go beyond the Taurus Mountains.

Does God, good, send evil? Under the marginal heading "Perfection of divine government" in Science and Health by Mrs. Eddy we find these words: "Christian Science goes to the bottom of mental action, and reveals the theodicy which indicates the rightness of all divine action, as the emanation of divine Mind, and the consequent wrongness of the opposite so-called action,—evil, occultism, necromancy, mesmerism, animal magnetism, hypnotism.