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TO those whose consciousness has become spiritually illumined through the perception of God as Mind, Spirit, the nature of God and of His universe is seen as wholly spiritual and perfect. Christian Science reveals that man is the reflection, or idea, of God and that, because of this, man's understanding is pure and perfect.

THE allness of God pervades Mrs. Eddy's revelation of Christian Science.

TRUE health is inseparable from holiness. It is the perfection of being, in which perfect God holds perfect man.

TWO people watched foresters systematically setting fire to dense undergrowth under heavy gum trees on hillsides surrounding their home. The fire burned strong and clean, leaving the big trees on smooth hills broken only by smoldering fallen timber that the fire had now exposed.

One of the notable passages in the Old Testament is that which tells of the changing of Jacob's name to Israel at Peniel; but the circumstances preceding the change also deserve consideration as explaining the nature of the problems which Jacob had to overcome on this occasion. Following the agreement which Jacob had eventually reached with Laban after long years in his service (see Gen.

In the seventeenth chapter of Matthew we read that Jesus healed the epileptic boy after his disciples had failed in their efforts to do so. The disciples did not understand why they had been unsuccessful, and they asked Jesus privately to explain their failure.

When asked by King Darius if his God had saved him in the lions' den, Daniel replied (6:22), "My God hath sent his angel, and hath shut the lions' mouths, that they have not hurt me: forasmuch as before him innocency was found in me. " This quality of innocency which saved Daniel from being harmed by the beasts belongs to the true selfhood of each one of us.

Mrs. Eddy writes in Science and Health ( p.

Ill health, lack, hunger, fear, insecurity, incompatibility, and aging are universal problems from which people in every country are trying to find surcease. Are those confronted with these conditions finding satisfying answers? Mrs.

In a paragraph with the marginal heading "Spiritual translation" on page 209 of Science and Health, Mrs. Eddy makes this arresting statement: "The compounded minerals or aggregated substances composing the earth, the relations which constituent masses hold to each other, the magnitudes, distances, and revolutions of the celestial bodies, are of no real importance, when we remember that they all must give place to the spiritual fact by the translation of man and the universe back into Spirit.