IMMEDIATELY
following the signing of the Armistice sixteen years ago it was freely predicted that never again would there be a major conflict between nations.
What
would not humanity give to be entirely rid of fear! For fear claims grievously to beset mortal existence, being the apparent cause of a great many of humanity's woes.
JESUS
did away with the discouraging belief that heaven is a place to be reached at the end of the mortal trail, and that in the meantime one must endure its opposite.
The
revelation of Christian Science lifts us above gloomy superstition, sanctimonious suffering, or the belief that backward steps prelude forward steps, and vice versa.
As
if in amplification of the first of the Ten Commandments, "Thou shalt have no other gods before me," the second prohibits the making, worshiping, or serving of graven images or the likeness of any material thing.