Young
people graduating from schools and colleges to take their places in a world where fear, confusion, and hatred hold sway, and where war is fiercely raging on many fronts, may be tempted to accept the mesmerism of worldly beliefs and question despairingly: Why were we born at this time?
If
someone said to you, "I know where there is hidden treasure which can easily be unearthed," would you not, having confirmed the facts, go to great lengths to get that treasure, if you knew that when you found it, it would be rightfully yours?
It
matters not whether one lives in the remotest part of the world or has his abode within a stone's throw of The Mother Church, The First Church of Christ, Scientist, in Boston, Massachusetts, each member thereof has a definite responsibility.
Man
, considered from the absolute spiritual standpoint, is perfect, harmonious, and entirely good; but mortal mind suggests to us under various guises a different type of man.
To
understand that the true individuality of everyone is the beloved son of God, as the Bible teaches and Christian Science inculcates, frees one from the desire to dominate others and also from domination by others.