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The position of The Mother Church as to Mary Baker Eddy's place in the fulfillment of Bible prophecy is clearly set forth in the following paragraphs. These conclusions are not new; they are confirmed by our Leader's writings, and the steadily unfolding fruitage of Christian Science bears witness to their truth.

Many people seem to possess an innate capacity to know right from wrong. Entirely apart from the promptings of education, custom, or reason, there is within them a feeling, a sometimes powerful force, tending to keep them in the paths of unselfish and loving action.

When the seventy disciples whom Jesus sent forth to preach and heal returned, rejoicing that the devils were subject to them, Jesus assured them that they had divine power over the enemy in any form and that nothing would hurt them. Then he admonished them ( Luke 10:20 ), "Notwithstanding in this rejoice not, that the spirits are subject unto you; but rather rejoice, because your names are written in heaven.

Christian Science reveals that regardless of appearances there is nothing unlike God. All that really exists is included in the divine Mind and its reflection of spiritual ideas.

" Will a man rob God?" This thought-provoking query from Malachi ( 3:8 ) came to the writer as she listened to some comments regarding criminal activity in the community. "No," was her immediate mental response, "'a man' will not 'rob God' because God cannot be robbed.

One of the fundamental points of Christian Science is that thought determines experience. Through prayerful study and demonstration, we find that if material beliefs are entertained, discord results; but if thought is based on the understanding of God as intelligence, Mind—the only consciousness—and of man as the spiritual reflection of Mind, harmony is experienced.

" Come now, and let us reason together, saith the Lord. " So we read in Isaiah ( 1:18 ).

What a wonderful thing it is to know that man is made in God's own image, that he is absolutely pure and sinless, yes, incapable of sin because he reflects only the qualities of God, his creator! We read in the Scriptures ( Job 33:4 ), "The Spirit of God hath made me, and the breath of the Almighty hath given me life. " One of the synonyms Mrs.

In Science and Health by Mrs. Eddy, we find a rule that demands the earnest and prayerful consideration of every conscientious Christian Scientist.

What is the line of demarcation between appropriate boldness and bragging, true humility and self-depreciation, modesty and timidity? To most of us the answer probably does not come all at once. More probably after many trials and experiences we arrive at a correct estimate of the permissible and desirable, on the one hand, and of the hurtful and damaging, on the other.