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THE precious talent which each of us receives from God is the ability to be spiritual and to discern real identity, God's perfect man, as our true nature and as the nature of others. Mrs.

INCORPORATED in the deeply spiritual and divinely beautiful Sermon on the Mount is found the standard of human relationships set by Christ Jesus and generally known as the Golden Rule ( Matt. 7:12 ): "All things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them.

WHAT a wonderful creation is man as understood in Christian Science: his being a compound of divine qualities, his heritage an inexhaustible blessing, his future a continuity of harmony! The first chapter of Genesis states that God created man. Man, the creation of Spirit, did not, then, evolve from materiality.

HUMANITY continually seeks to possess that which is real, that which is. Frequently this seeking is impelled by a desire for a perfect physical body.

IN Christian Science we understand that infinity cannot help being demonstrated, because demonstration is included in infinity itself. The Christian Scientist demonstrates infinity as the law of God, forever operating to unfold divine ideas, which, in turn, meet the human need.

CHRISTIAN SCIENCE is freeing many people from the mental malady called hurt feelings, which, until overcome, often leads to irritation, ill-will, hatred, and sometimes revenge. From this sordid mental seedbed frequently evolve physical disorders which resist removal until the mental state they objectify is corrected.

In the Bible we find this wise counsel ( Matt. 6:19, 20 ): "Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth and rust doth corrupt, and where thieves break through and steal: but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust doth corrupt, and where thieves do not break through nor steal.

Has common consent fastened on someone the stigma of mercurial or unpredictable temperament? According to the teachings of Christian Science, man, the spiritual likeness of God, inherits from his heavenly Father only Godlike qualities. What are some of these qualities? Wisdom, steadfastness, and, above all, love come to mind at once.

The Christian Scientist's constant prayer is to rise above the generally accepted beliefs which compose what Mrs. Eddy has called mortal mind, the fictitious, temporal mind of which she writes in Science and Health ( p.

Superficially considered, a home may seem to be a material structure. But scientifically understood, our true dwelling place is wholly spiritual.