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Have you ever asked yourself, "Could I pass a spiritual examination?" Mary Baker Eddy gives this pertinent advice in regard to self-examination in "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" ( p. 8 ): "We should examine ourselves and learn what is the affection and purpose of the heart, for in this way only can we learn what we honestly are.

A Challenge to any right endeavor usually has the effect of stimulating thought into action which results in victory. A helpful lesson in this connection may be learned from the action of a river when meeting a dam in its course.

When God required Moses to lead the children of Israel out of Egypt, He gave him two signs: Moses' rod was turned into a serpent and then back again into a rod; then his hand was made to appear leprous and forthwith was restored to its normal condition. He was told that if the Hebrews would not believe the former sign, they would believe the latter sign—the sign of healing.

Spiritual unfoldment is effect, not cause. It is manifested humanly as a deep desire to know God and man in His image and likeness.

Self-Preservation , it has often been said, is the first law of nature. But what is man's real selfhood? How is it preserved? In the Glossary of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," Mary Baker Eddy, on page 591 , defines man as "the compound idea of infinite Spirit; the spiritual image and likeness of God; the full representation of Mind.

" Be not overcome of evil, but overcome evil with good. " This advice of Paul's ( Rom.

One of the most beloved narratives in the Bible is that of the journey of Mary and Joseph to Bethlehem and the birth of Christ Jesus while they were there. It is recorded in Luke that "the days were accomplished that she should be delivered" ( 2:6 ).

" We , to-day, in this class-room, are enough to convert the world if we are of one Mind; for then the whole world will feel the influence of this Mind; as when the earth was without form, and Mind spake and form appeared," declared Mary Baker Eddy in addressing a Primary class in 1889 (Miscellaneous Writings, pp. 279, 280 ).

Students of Christian Science are grateful for the divine guidance and protection they enjoy through listening and obeying the still small voice of Truth, God. They have found that even in this age of great industrialization and material advancement, it is possible, even natural, to commune with God as simply and as directly as did the prophets of old.

At this period, great emphasis is being placed on the necessity of penetrating investigation of fundamental facts. This trend in human thinking is very encouraging to Christian Scientists, who are convinced that beyond and above all material investigation the one fundamental fact which will eventually and inevitably come to light is that God is All-in-all.