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When Mary Baker Eddy, the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, organized The First Church of Christ, Scientist, in Boston, Massachusetts, she designed it "to be built on the Rock, Christ; even the understanding and demonstration of divine Truth, Life, and Love, healing and saving the world from sin and death; thus to reflect in some degree the Church Universal and Triumphant," as we read on page 19 of the "Historical Sketch" from the Manual of The Mother Church by Mrs. Eddy.

Christ Jesus , in his glorious healing v ministry, realized and utilized the power of spiritual stimulus. He said ( John 5:30 ): "I can of mine own self do nothing"; and ( John 14:10 ),"The Father that dwelleth in me, he doeth the works.

Christian Science healing is a holy experience. It is evidence that God's power and presence have dawned upon receptive human consciousness through His eternal Christ.

How limitless is God's love and how manifold are His blessings! And yet how often we fail to demonstrate this truth in our human affairs. We fail because we are viewing creation through the lens of human belief, which presents man as sometimes good, sometimes bad, but always limited.

The wheel is generally considered to be the world's most important invention. An almost unbelievable amount of mechanical freedom has come through the employment of this simple device.

That a correct sense of true being in its richness and eternality may be gained through an understanding of God is indicated in these two memorable statements of Christ Jesus ( John 17:3 ): "This is life eternal, that they might know thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent," and ( John 10: 10 ), "I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly. " Unenlightened world thinking is a striking example of the truth contained in Mary Baker Eddy's statement in "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" ( p.

Christian Science affirms that God, infinite Spirit, is ever present. Therefore the Christ, the true idea of God, is never absent.

Christian Science is not just another religion. It is the way of Life, and it includes the healing of disease as well as the healing of sin.

In a challenging passage in the Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," our Leader, Mary Baker Eddy, enumerates the practical advantages possible to businessmen and scholars through a demonstration of this Science. She writes ( p.

In Chapter VI of the Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," Mary Baker Eddy refers to her remarkable discovery of Christian Science in the year 1866 and tells of her ever-increasing faith in the allness of Mind, God, and the nothingness of matter. Following her discovery she was divinely motivated to write the textbook, which contains the scientific statement of this new and revolutionary idea.