Recent
political and economic events have had their effects in the remotest corners of the earth, and thousands of people have seen the course of their lives changed, their planned careers swept aside by the necessity for rendering services of an entirely different character from that which they had planned or hoped for.
The
record of God's spiritual creation, found in the first chapter of Genesis, ends with a declaration of finality: that He "saw every thing that he had made, and, behold, it was very good".
Whatever
the period in world history, but especially at this hour, there is need for examining our thoughts and acts to see what we are depending upon for salvation.
We
read in Luke's Gospel that the child Jesus, according to mortal belief just twelve years old, was found in the temple in Jerusalem "sitting in the midst of the doctors, both healing them, and asking them questions".
A Bible
writer, many centuries ago, saw that just because some mortal says such and such happenings shall come to pass, this does not mean the things he prophesies shall be.
Churches and societies in Great Britain and Ireland and on the Continent are reminded that applications for lectures should be made by their clerks in June as soon as possible after the names of the lecturers assigned to these countries are announced, following the Annual Meeting of The Mother Church, and not later than July 10.
It was my happy privilege to grow up in a home where all the writings of Mary Baker Eddy and the authorized literature of The Christian Science Publishing Society were available to those who wished to read them, and where attendance at the Christian Science Sunday School was taken as a matter of course.
In gratitude for the many blessings which the study of Christian Science has brought to me, I give this testimony in the hope that it may benefit someone as I myself have been helped by the perusal of testimonies published in our periodicals.
As one among a host of people sustained by Christian Science while undergoing hardships due to the exigencies of war, I should like to add my testimony.
At one time, during a church service, as I listened carefully to the Lesson-Sermon read from the Christian Science Quarterly, the last sentence read from Science and Health by Mrs.
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