During
my recent service as an aviator there was usually a small percentage of the men in the group to which I was assigned who were "grounded," that is, temporarily or permanently considered not qualified to carry out their aerial duties owing to some inharmonious physical or temperamental condition.
After
Elijah's vindication at Mount Carmel, when the prophets of Baal were unable to give a sign of divine power, Jezebel, an idol worshiper and supporter of the prophets of Baal, made a vow against the life of Elijah and informed him of it.
It
is not generally understood that the beliefs called sin, sickness, disease, and death are all without exception forms of aggressive mental suggestion, errors of belief in a mortal, material existence.
Zechariah
, one of the minor prophets who after the Jews' return from Babylonian captivity lifted high the standard of righteous thinking and living, has left for posterity in the book which bears his name a code of ethics as immortal as truth itself.
No
doubt everyone is at some time assailed by the complaint of the woman who when questioned as to the reason for her seeming depression and gloom, which was not natural for her, replied, "Everything is so daily!" How weary the thought sometimes grows of the monotony of daily tasks, the same old things to do day after day, seeming to be in themselves drab and uninteresting.
Weekday classes in religious education conducted on released school time for public school pupils are being held in all but a few states of the United States, as well as in Canada, England, and Wales.
The printed Tenets of The Mother Church are in general use by branch churches and societies, either as a basis for their application forms for admission to membership or for binding into their by-law booklets.
The sustaining, protecting, and guiding influence of Christian Science during the three years I spent in the Air Corps conclusively proved to me that God's love is everywhere available.
To me, one of the greatest blessings derived from faithfulness to the teachings of the Bible and Christian Science is the understanding of spiritual law which we gain, for this is always sufficient to meet and master any adverse condition.
I wish to express my gratitude to God for Christian Science and the many blessings I have received through the study and application of the truth as revealed therein.
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