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How does God know what we need? And how will our needs be met?

An occult revival is springing up in the United States and Europe. How paradoxical that this highly technical, intellectually advanced age—capable of putting a man on the moon—may also go down in history as a period when the revival of witchcraft and demonology grew to such proportions that some churches felt it necessary to issue procedures for exorcising demons! But this has happened even recently.

Paul admonishes us, "Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus. " Phil.

The answer to this question is crucial. Mortal selfhood—believed in, indulged, and justified—acts, in belief, as a block to spiritual growth and healing.

When members of a branch church or society give a Christian Science lecture in the community, they invite their neighbors, friends and strangers alike, to share a feast of Love. Jesus illustrated this sharing of spiritual truth when he turned the water into wine at the marriage feast in Cana of Galilee.

Listening for God's guidance spiritualizes one and improves his experience by turning him away from materiality and a finite, limited sense of being. It is prayer, for this listening and hearing is not with the physical ear.

In a world of constantly changing economic conditions and values, many people are concerned as to their future prospects regarding employment, the cost of living, and other factors tending to affect their way of life. In such circumstances it can be helpful to ask oneself, "Does God change?" In Christian Science one learns that nothing can interfere with God's constant harmonious government of His spiritual creation, including man, whom He maintains with unerring wisdom and love.

God's laws, the laws maintaining the harmonious order of His perfect universe, are here to be brought out in daily living. There is no guesswork in this demonstration.

It was a Sunday afternoon on a highway out West. I was en route to California.

Have you sometimes felt that you were being pressured by an impressive or dominating tutor to argue for something you didn't believe in? Are you easily fazed by brilliant minds? Do you feel uneasy about accepting a scholarship from an organization whose basic standards you can't fully agree with? Do religion and the spirit of free inquiry seem to you incompatible? Most of us involved in academic life have come up against some of these questions. Many thoughtful people bring their talents and ideas forward at a university or college hoping to see them refined for service to humanity.