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The great need of mankind today is to understand scientific healing. Mrs.

Throughout Christian history resurrection has been associated exclusively with Jesus of Nazareth. For nearly two thousand years Christendom has benefited from the Way-shower's resurrection without understanding its full significance.

The Christian Scientist finds the basis for his standard of health in the first chapter of Genesis. This chapter makes clear that God made all that was made, that this creation was the product of His infinite self knowledge, and that it partook of His nature, which is infinitely good.

A vital demand of the times is this: that the Christian Scientist be more watchful, that he accomplish more—do more effective healing work on a larger scale and accomplish it more consistently. How may such a requirement be met? Discipline is an answer, the spiritual self-discipline that is inherent in the practice of this Science.

Christian Science is effectively meeting the challenge that faces parents and teachers in their work with children. Mrs.

In the Christian Science textbook, Science and Health by Mrs. Eddy, we find this statement: "God has endowed man with inalienable rights, among which are self government, reason, and conscience.

Christian Science deduces a momentous truth from the perception that law originates in God. It reasons that since God, infinite Mind, is the sole creator, man must be God's likeness, His idea.

In the seventh chapter of Luke we are told of a centurion whose servant "was sick and ready to die. " Luke 7:2; An officer of the Roman forces, the centurion knew the effect of authority.

The story was told me of a mother who went with her small son to a railroad yard to see his father, a locomotive engineer. As soon as he was taken into the cab, the youngster wanted to start the engine.

The discovery of Christian Science by Mary Baker Eddy and her founding of the Christian Science movement prepared her to meet the demands progressively made upon her by leadership of the Cause of Christian Science. In course of time her teachings spread both nationally and internationally, and it became obvious that in order to preserve the accuracy and purity of her teachings a wise human control was absolutely necessary.