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Healing is a usual, not an unusual, event in Christian Science. Sometimes at the end of a testimony or a discussion of a healing the remark is made that the healing which was experienced has been permanent.

Today , as of old, under the guise of false religious beliefs or utter irreligious thinking the people of the world accept superstition, fatalism, chance, or luck as playing a part in their everyday experience. Yet this age proclaims itself to be the age of science, and one definition of "science" that Webster gives is this: "accumulated and accepted knowledge which has been systematized and formulated with reference to the discovery of general truths or the operation of general laws.

It is the practical office of the Christ to eliminate the ills of the flesh, revealing existence harmoniously controlled by Spirit. In speaking of the eternal Christ, Truth, and its adaptability to every phase of human existence, Jesus declared ( John 10: 10 ), "I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly.

All true law emanates from divine Principle, God. Those who seem to suffer, sin, and die do so because of the belief that there are material laws opposed to divine law and that these so-called laws can at times prevail over the infallible law of God.

The man who is born of God, Spirit, is ever in heaven, harmony. A glimpse of the spiritual nature of this man opens the gates of heaven.

The first Christian Science Reading Room was opened in Boston, Massachusetts, in October, 1888, at the recommendation of Mary Baker Eddy, the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science. Although this Reading Room differed from and was superseded by the Christian Science Reading Room as it is today, the Christian Scientist may indeed cherish this instance of his Leader's vision of the power of Truth's communications, as represented by the Christian Science movement's authorized publications, to carry her teachings forward.

Are we conscious of the fact that the operation of Truth is instantaneous? Are we aware that Truth is the absence of all error? If so, then we realize that the instantaneity of Truth is the nowness of the availability of all good. Both Old and New Testaments of the Bible contain references to the immediate action of Truth.

In this modern age, we hear much of nuclear energy, jet-propelled planes, missiles, and the exploring of outer space, some aspects of which offer severe challenges. Scientific research along many lines has made great strides in all fields of material endeavor.

However hackneyed the thirteenth chapter of I Corinthians may have become to some readers through much use, nothing can dim the beauty and simplicity of its language or obscure the spiritual meaning which shines through the words. It remains one of the most wonderful statements and analyses of spiritual love ever written.

Christ Jesus said,"I and my Father are one" ( John 10:30 ). A definition of "one" is "undivided.