Articles

The mortal mind which says, "I am sick," has no legitimate authority to use the word "I. " Because of this, we may exercise our God-given prerogative to deny mortal mind its claim to being or having ego.

The seventh beatitude, or blessing, contained in Jesus' Sermon on the Mount should be of particular significance to Christian Scientists: "Blessed are the peacemakers: for they shall be called the children of God" ( Matt. 5:9 ).

Perhaps one of the most dramatic accounts relating to Jesus' healing ministry is that of the occasion when an epileptic boy, whom Jesus' disciples could not heal, was brought by his father to the Master. We read that "Jesus rebuked the devil; and he departed out of him: and the child was cured from that very hour" ( Matt.

We are told in Psalms that "God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble" ( 46:1 ). How comforting are those words to all who seek God's loving, constant help for the solution to their problems! How inspiring is the thought that "God is our refuge"! The Bible refers in several places to God as a refuge; and a dictionary defines "refuge" as "that which, or one who, shelters or protects from danger, distress, calamity.

Omniscient Mind is forever at the standpoint of infinite, spiritual illumination. Mrs.

The theology of Christian Science is aflame with the spirit of the ever-present healing Christ. It is the eternal evidence of Immanuel, or "God with us" —a divine influx of the Holy Spirit, forever unfolding itself as God's law of harmony "in earth, as it is in heaven" ( Matt.

To forget error by blotting it out of thought through the realization of the facts pertaining to spiritual existence is in accord with the teachings of Christian Science. This Science reveals that disease, sin, and all other discords are illusions of material sense and not creations of God, divine Love.

Sacrifice originally meant a material offering to a deity in token of worship or atonement. In modern usage, it generally denotes the giving up of cherished objects for the sake of others.

" The great miracle, to human sense, is divine Love, and the grand necessity of existence is to gain the true idea of what constitutes the kingdom of heaven in man. " So writes Mrs.

The divine decree of man's God-given dominion is recorded in Genesis (1: 26) , "God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth. " That which God proclaims is inviolate.