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 CHRISTIAN SCIENCE:
 The Proving of Gods
 Friendship to Man
 By Rev. William F. Mckenzie, c. S. R.
 of Cambridge, Mass, Member of the
 Board of Lcctureshlp of The First Church of Christ, Scientist,
 In Boston, Massachusetts.
 All down the ages men have been blessed by the kindness of God. Some few have answered back to the benign influence, and have praised the source. These have given to us our enduring literature in the Scriptures. Mrs. Eddy says, God is universal; confin- cd to no spot, defined by no dogma, appropriated by no sect. Not more to one than to all, is God demonstrable as divine Life, Truth, and Love; and His people are they who reflect Him that reflect Love" Miscellaneous Writings, p. 150).y 7. Search for Truth
 The search of man through all his years is for something satisfying and enduring. Because of the deceitful- ness of false beliefs men go on spend ing their money for that which is not bread and their labor for that which satisfieth not" But the testimony of the Scriptures is that in every age some men have found the actual truth; not truth relative to the bloom ing and fading theories of their time, and so as transient as they; but truth { that from everlasting to everlasting is the same. This truth has proofs of a certain character and the most salient proof is healing, whether of sickness for persons, or of plague among the people, or of national fear tending to defeat the disaster. The appearing of the truth causes immediate reversal Of the error which has been posing as fact and accepted as reality.
 Enoeh and Abraham
 That writer knew the fundamentals who said, Thou wilt show me the path of life; in, thy presence is fulness of joy" In earliest times we find it recorded of Enoch that he knew this pathway. His brief biography tells that he walked with God" It is de- clared also that he did not die but that God took him to Himself. It is habitual for Christians to expect to have. after death. joy in Gods pres ence: but Enoch proved Gods pres ence to be joy and life while here on earth. Y Y '+s'-Ss' : 24 There is deep significance in Abra- ham's response to God. Following the inward impulse of faith he left wealth and the glowing prospects of high es- tate, in order to be free from the wor- ship, of strange gods and the claims of idolatrous kindred. He was seeker after the one God whom he came to know as "the most high God, the pos sessor of heaven and earth" Var ious records as we'll as the testimony of tradition lead James to say of the patriarch that The was called the Friend of God" It is easy then to see tho sureness of the promise that "all the nations of the earth shall be blessed in him." because if Abraham. like Enoch, developed friendship with God the correlative fact is implied that they knew the eternal truth of Gods friendship for man.
 The patriarch, however, looked out across the future ages with prophetic vision, for he knew that this saving truth of Gods friendship must appear with satisfying proofs beyond what he could demonstrate. The Prophet of Nazareth recognized what Abraham's faith had seen afar off. for he said to the Jews, "Your Father Abraham rejoiced to see my day; and he saw it and was glad" From the mountain top of his faith Abraham foresaw the time when by proofs undeniable Gods friendship should be evidenced by the manifestation of the Son.-revealing Gods character by doing His will. Law of Moses
 So also had Moses the forward look. Although learned in the wisdom of the Egyptians, he yet found not God until in the wilderness alone when the an gel of God appeared to him. Then ht was instructed by the wisdom of Spir- it. He learned new name for the God of the forefathers of Abraham, and Isaac and Jacob, namely, the great I AM-self existent, eternal and unchangeable being.
 When the ten commandments were