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In today's world, acts of lawlessness, violence, and brutality seem to be common and according to statistics have grown in frequency and intensity during the last few years. Why is this and what can we do to help reverse this world trend? We are taught in Christian Science that material conditions are the result of thinking and that these conditions can be ameliorated, altered, and healed by changing the mental climate.

Throughout the centuries, before and after the star in the East heralded Christ Jesus' birth, powerful spiritual facts concerning God and man's eternal unity with Him have, like mental thunderbolts, been stirring dormant human consciousness to transform it from a material to a spiritual basis. The chemicalization we are witnessing today is the direct result of the mortal, or carnal, mind's age-old resistance to this healthy overturning.

In determining how to be rightly active, it is well for us to understand and acknowledge God as the source of all action. Divine Mind, God, is eternally active.

Elisha's healing work was an outstanding mark of his career, and much can be gained from considering his association with the brave Shunammite who is described as "a great woman" ( II Kings 4:8 ). She recognized him as "an holy man of God" (verse 9), welcomed him as her guest on repeated occasions, and, with her husband, provided a special room for the prophet's use.

The first chapter of Genesis states that "God created man in his own image," Gen. 1:27; after His own likeness.

One who is unacquainted with agricultural pursuits, upon hearing the exhortation of both Jeremiah and Hosea, "Break up your fallow ground," Jer. 4:3 and Hos.

It is unusual these days to hear a news broadcast that does not include a report of some form of crime. Many are shocked by the number and nature of these reports but feel helpless to do anything to lessen the increasing crime rate.

A great service to the cause of progress in the affairs of the world, individually and collectively, was rendered when Mrs. Eddy disclosed the claim of animal magnetism, or mesmerism, that it can becloud the non alert mind so that it fails to recognize opportunities or is insensitive to the need for creative and expanded thinking.

Who of us has not at times been tempted to be disturbed at the aggressive persistence of the carnal, or mortal, mind, attempting through propaganda media, such as radio, television, and newspapers, to make evil seem natural and even good? Perhaps after a time we tend to become indifferent, thinking there is nothing much we can do about medical commercials, sensational news reports, and the like. Or perhaps we just try to tune them out, so to speak, thinking that if we ignore them we won't be affected by them.

In childhood we are often given things outright, but, as a rule, the further we advance in life, the more we have to earn rewards of good. The writer best remembers those rewards in his early youth earned through direct efforts rather than those things given him outright, even though they were given with love.