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Christian Science unfolds eternal truths and calls on all followers of Christ Jesus to prove that these truths are true today. Truth, true for eternity, must by its very nature be true now.

To every Christian Scientist, dedication is a living part of his daily experience; in fact, his whole experience is based on his dedication to God. When he accepts the teachings of Christian Science, when he takes the name of Christ in its new meaning, the Christian Scientist dedicates himself to serve God and man.

In the fourteenth chapter of Exodus it is recorded that in the course of their journey out of Egypt, the children of Israel found themselves in what appeared to be a desperate situation, for they had come to the Red Sea, and it seemed that they could proceed no further. They could not go back or stay where they were, for the Egyptian army was pursuing them and was fast overtaking them.

Students of Christian Science can eliminate fears and forebodings from their thinking and their experience when they understand that God, omnipotent good, governs the universe, including man. Christian Science teaches that God creates and knows only good, as the Bible indicates in the first chapter of Genesis.

Referring to the primary mission of Christian Science, both now and in the time of Jesus, Mrs. Eddy writes (Science and Health, p.

" Open thou mine eyes," the Psalmist prayed, "that I may behold wondrous things out of thy law" ( Ps. 119:18 ).

A Friend who is a student of Christian Science related that some years ago after she had recounted to her family all that she had to put up with, what a hard time she was having, and how painful it was for her to carry on her duties, one of her daughters replied lovingly but pointedly, "Mother, I am not impressed. " The mother saw that this was the right attitude, for she certainly had no desire to imprint any belief of a real and awful error upon others.

There may come a time in the life of a student of Christian Science when he feels the need for giving special heed to the injunction ( Isa. 54:2,3 ), "Enlarge the place of thy tent, and let them stretch forth the curtains of thine habitations: spare not, lengthen thy cords, and strengthen thy stakes; for thou shalt break forth on the right hand and on the left.

Universal salvation will not be won without due recognition by each individual of his God-given freedom to work out his own salvation. There are, of course, many who deny that any such freedom exists, who believe that the fate of mankind is predetermined either by an inscrutable deity or by human environment with its variety of determining forces and laws.

Christian Science teaches that healing and regeneration take place through a process of awakening. When the fact that man and the universe are spiritual replaces in the individual's awakened consciousness the fable of a physical man and universe, healing and regeneration are inevitable.