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" Hidden electrical forces annihilating time and space, wireless telegraphy, navigation of the air; in fact, all the et cetera of mortal mind pressing to the front, remind me of my early dreams of flying in airy space, buoyant with liberty and the luxury of thought let loose, rising higher and forever higher in the boundless blue. " So wrote Mary Baker Eddy in an article now published in her book entitled "The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and Miscellany" ( p.

One summer day, with the sun bright in the sky and the waters in the ravines merely a trickle, I made my way along the partially dry bed of a little stream. It was necessary to step around some stones that protruded like turtles' backs from the slate bottom.

Christ Jesus showed by parable the true sense of spiritual advancement and its counterfeit of self-aggrandizement. He said ( Luke 14:8-10 ): "When thou art bidden of any man to a wedding, sit not down in the highest room.

The question, "How do we resist evil?" finds an answer in the following words by Mary Baker Eddy, the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science: "Goodness involuntarily resists evil" (The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and Miscellany, p. 210 ).

Christian Science presents the gloriously satisfying view of man as the individual, perfect expression of God. Man includes by reflection all good.

The Bible contains many accounts of mankind's deliverance from bondage to fear through the understanding that man really lives in Love, God. Moses' many experiences taught him the love of God.

When we use the word "I," as we so frequently do, to what are we referring? Do we not usually have in thought a person encumbered by a material body, equipped with his own intellect and will? We habitually ascribe to this person varying quantities of goodness, health, ability, happiness, and supply. Perhaps we are sometimes afraid for this selfhood, sometimes proud or ashamed of it, and often in bondage to it.

Resting at the edge of a busy outdoor market place one sunny morning, a student of Christian Science was suddenly filled with gratitude for the hint of God's glory mirrored in the scene before her— the beauty of color, the rhythmic activity, the harmonious order and continuity of movement. All at once her pattern of thought was sharply interrupted, for nearby a loud, impatient voice was expressing emphatic disgust with the whole picture! To this person, evidently, all that came to view were crowded shopping conditions, tiresome duties, and perhaps loss of time and energy.

In the Bible we read ( Ps. 29:2 ), "Give unto the Lord the glory due unto his name; worship the Lord in the beauty of holiness.

In the Old Testament are many evidences of the people's hope for a deliverer or a great prophet who would inspire or lead them. The prophets had glimpses of the Messiah, and others of the great Old Testament characters showed some recognition of the Christ.