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Among the basic and far-reaching facts of Christian Science is this: that Spirit, God, always sustains Life and that matter never does. Mrs.

" Only through radical reliance on Truth can scientific healing power be realized," Mrs. Eddy writes on page 167 of Science and Health.

What greater privilege could there be than that of seeing God? This privilege is denied no one. Christ Jesus taught, "Blessed are the pure in heart: for they shall see God" ( Matt.

Instinctively one prays when he is in difficulty. In so doing, is he not indicating some semblance of belief in a higher power which he intuitively feels is present to help? Is he not responding to his real, spiritual nature, to belief in reality, to faith in the existence of God? Some prayers are answered; some are not.

How encouraging it is to witness the change of thought in a friend or neighbor when he accepts his true relationship to God as His beloved son and reflection! When Mrs. Eddy received the revelation of Truth, she saw clearly that God's allness and ever-presence are made manifest through man, His image and likeness.

Mrs. Eddy defines "angels" in Science and Health as, "God's thoughts passing to man; spiritual intuitions, pure and perfect; the inspiration of goodness, purity, and immortality, counteracting all evil, sensuality, and mortality" ( p.

Practice is the application or use of knowledge. To illustrate: one who gains a knowledge of the basic rules of mathematics and uses this knowledge correctly solves his mathematical problems.

We all love the message with which Christ Jesus comforted his disciples when he said ( John 14:27 ), "Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid. " In the Bible, as in present-day literature, the word "heart" is frequently used to signify one's innermost thoughts or feelings, one's mental attitude.

People unacquainted with Christian Science may ask how it is possible for material conditions to be changed by spiritual thinking and how a body, generally thought to be material, can be healed by spiritual means. Indeed the use of the word "miracle," implying an occurrence contrary to natural law or the usual order of events, for spiritual healing implies widespread disbelief in the possibility of control by thought over what most people believe to be material.

How grateful we are when we hear people testify that they were helped when they turned to God in time of need! But why wait for some specific need? Are we not always in need? If the power of God is adequate to the solution of specific needs, why not recognize this power as the power which animates our every thought and deed in everyday experience? The recognition of God as the only power will lift our experience out of the depths of human suffering into the health and joy of existence as the expression of divine Life. And this is the expression of divine Life, heaven on earth.