YOUNG Christian Scientists on the college campus of today should indeed be grateful that they have in Christian Science the key that unlocks the door to a well-balanced, successful, happy life. The prevalent belief is that life on the college campus is extremely complex and varied. The newcomer finds what often seems a bewildering array of sports, social events, and other extracurricular activities, along with the regular college work. A Well-balanced college experience, of course, should include some activity in these fields. Many college students, however, never seem to achieve a satisfying, harmonious balance in such varying aspects of school life. And there is a common belief that a student who is extremely successful in one phase of his activity usually is unsuccessful in others. But the young Christian Scientist knows that through careful study and application of his religion to his everyday life he can demonstrate the wonderful truth about harmonious action as given him by Mary Baker Eddy in "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" (p. 407), "In Science, all being is eternal, spiritual, perfect, harmonious in every action."

One of the most important phases of every student's life is, of course, his schoolwork. Here, the student encounters many suggestions of competition, lack of so-called native intellectual ability, lack of time, of talent, and so on. The earnest student of Christian Science can, however, mentally refute these erroneous suggestions and prove his oneness with the divine Mind, the source of all ideas. When, for instance, the suggestion of competition for grades presents itself, he can know that Love has infinite good for all, and that one individual's utilization of this good cannot possibly deprive another. If the suggestion of lack of native intellectual ability or talent tries to gain a foothold in his consciousness. the student can stand firmly on the fact that right ideas are always present and ever available. They need only to be demonstrated. Every child of God has a perfect, inalienable right to orderly, correct, inspired thinking. As for the common belief of lack of time, does not Mrs. Eddy forever refute this claim when she says in Science and Health (p. 387), "Who dares to say that actual Mind can be overworked?"

In extracurricular activities, too, the student can deny the prevalent suggestions of mortal mind, and claim his rightful heritage as a perfect, complete idea in the divine Mind. He can always express right activity, co-operation, and love. And in times of seeming triumph or defeat he can be healed of his sense of human accomplishment or failure by realizing and proving that "both riches and honour" come from God.

In the field of personal relations, the student has unlimited opportunity to prove that the only real association with people is in his own thinking. Harmonious association with others thus depends largely on his concept of them. If, then, he holds constantly in mind the spiritual fact, with all its grand implications, that man is the perfect idea of God, how can he ever meet with dishonesty, jealousy, impurity, hatred? Rather does he see manifested the qualities of God in those whom he encounters; and he is likewise healed of the belief of dependency on a few or a certain circle of friends.

In recalling the many wonderful proofs of the healing and regenerating power of Christian Science that she had seen manifested, one young student was healed, likewise, of the more subtle approach of error calling itself doubt. She realized that, just as she never doubted the principle of mathematics once she had seen it proved in the working out of problems, so she would never again doubt the Principle of Christian Science, because she had seen it demonstrated over and over again in her own experience and in that of others.

This student found, too, that the application of her knowledge of Christian Science to her affairs enabled her to demonstrate an integrated, balanced activity in her daily life. As she realized more and more that her only duty was to express God. the mesmeric suggestions of too much to do and of not knowing which activities to choose, faded from her experience, and the activities of each day unfolded in an orderly, harmonious fashion.

How important it is, too, in the troubled world of today, for each one of us to demonstrate peace and harmony in his individual life! Mortal mind would have us believe that order and peace are fast disappearing, and that the outlook, especially for young people, is dark and chaotic. But in Christian Science we learn the truth about the real universe, created by Mind. Principle, and peopled with the ideas of this Mind. In this universe, order and harmony reign, and all the qualities of the creator are expressed by man, the reflection of this Mind. Here we find perfection, health, abundance, and joy.

By thus making our daily demonstration of harmony and peace, we are not only freeing ourselves from the beliefs of war and inharmony, but we are also helping to free the whole world, for we are proving the wonderful truth of Mrs. Eddy's words (ibid., p. 207), "The spiritual fact, repeated in the action of man and the whole universe, is harmonious and is the ideal of Truth."