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Putting on record insights into the practice of Christian Science.

GOOD CITIZENSHIP

Christian Science has revealed the spiritual facts of being, namely the truth concerning God and His Christ. On the authority of the Scriptures, Science has brought to light the spiritual origin and development of the universe, including man, and it demands proof of this revelation through spiritualized living and wholesome and healthy conduct on the part of Christian Scientists.

THE FORMATIONS OF SPIRIT

Christian Science reveals man as incorporeal, but it never implies that he is formless. Instead, it brings to light the spiritual formation that is man's eternal identity, distinct and individual, created and sustained by the one Supreme Being.

MANKIND'S HIGHEST HOPE AND ATTAINMENT

Most human beings recognize that the inward longing and desire of mankind is for a state of mental peace and harmony. Every individual is instinctively seeking happiness and a sense of being that is the expression of completeness and satisfaction.

TRUE EDUCATION

In order to cope with the world in which they live, men need human education in many branches of learning. In fact, their ability to grasp the requirements of such education and to progress in the freedom from limitation it is designed to bring is evidence of their present demonstration of God-derived intelligence.

TO KNOW GOD ARIGHT

Christian Science reveals the nature of God as wholly good. Indeed, good is used by Mary Baker Eddy as a synonymous term for God.

TRUE PROPHECY

Prophecy is concerned with lifting A human experience above that which seems to be taking place in the affairs of mankind. That state of being which is absolute—the eternal perfection and allness of God—neither demands nor needs prophecy.

TRAVEL LIGHT!

Travel light! This is good advice to any traveler. It is the best possible advice to the happy traveler who is making his way up the hill of Christian Science, traveling from sense to Soul on his way to the promised land.

CIRCULATION

Circulation implies activity. Synonyms of "circulate" are active words, such as spread, diffuse, disseminate; and one definition of it is "to pass or go about from place to place, from person to person,.

THE HOLY BIBLE

It is noteworthy that following her immediate recovery from the effects of a fall and injury which physicians and medicine had failed to heal, Mary Baker Eddy, the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, turned to her Bible in her search for the understanding of the spiritually scientific law whereby she had regained her health. Speaking of this, she writes in her book "Retrospection and Introspection" ( p.

AN ESSENTIAL FACTOR

Probably nothing that Christian Science teaches is more vigorously or more subtly resisted than its appraisal of evil as nothingness. Yet a clear understanding of this appraisal is an essential factor in healing the sick and in overcoming every type of error that besets mankind.