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The prophet Habakkuk acknowledged that God is "of purer eyes than to behold evil" ( 1:13 ). This truth is especially loved by the student of Christian Science, for this Science teaches that God, who is Love and Life, can no more impart evil than light can make or send forth darkness.

Mary Baker Eddy , the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, writes of the ever resurrection dawn: "This glad Easter morning witnesseth a risen Saviour, a higher human sense of Life and Love, which wipes away all tears. With grave-clothes laid aside, Christ, Truth, has come forth from the tomb of the past, clad in immortality.

High above Paul, as he stood in the middle of Mars' Hill over nineteen centuries ago, rose the Parthenon, crowning the Acropolis, central hill of ancient Athens. This magnificent structure, with its great white marble columns and its frieze painted in red and blue, was considered then, as indeed by many today, the most perfect monument of Greek art.

" Is there infinite progression with man after the destruction of mortal mind?" was a question addressed to Mrs. Eddy.

To understand the power of spiritual thought, and to apply that understanding to the mental constraints of daily living, is a controlling force in the freedom and destiny of men and nations. The knowledge of true mental power and its operations must become an open book to us, in the home and community, in the fields of commerce, law, research, agriculture, and the professions.

Each of us, at various times in his life, probably asks himself the questions: "Where am I going? What do I really desire?" Mrs. Eddy points out the value of such appraisal and writes in Science and Health ( p.

A Great deal of our time is spent in the endeavor to please others—employers, relatives, or friends. But too often personal advantage is the motivating force of these efforts, and therefore they lack the spiritual afflatus which accompanies unselfed labor.

At a show in a planetarium, the lecturer spoke of how very little matter a comet contains. He concluded by saying that the substance in a comet is "as near to nothing as anything can be while it still remains something.

The Church of Christ, Scientist, by its very name makes far-reaching demands upon its members. To exemplify that which is implicit in this name, the membership must love, live, and prove the Christ-power and Christ Science as taught and demonstrated by Jesus.

Throughout the Scriptures the fact of the allness of God, good, shines as a guiding star leading us out of the false, illusive belief that there is a power opposed to God and into the understanding that the realm of the real is spiritual. In our search for Truth it is imperative that we acknowledge and accept the fundamental fact of God's allness and goodness.