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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.

Looking toward the future of individual nations and of the whole world, can anyone afford to ignore the mounting problems facing those in positions of authority, whether in business or in government? Yet one may wonder how he can help, for at first glance it seems ridiculous that a few men here and there might be of any value. But he who cherishes freedom to worship, speak, and' live without the tyranny and imposition of mortal mind's laws can learn how to claim his right to make just decisions and to live harmoniously through practicing the Science of Christianity.

Mary Baker Eddy says ( Miscellaneous Writings, p. 172 ), "Intrepid, self-oblivious Protestants in a higher sense than ever before, let us meet and defeat the claims of sense and sin, regardless of the bans or clans pouring in their fire upon us.

Throughout her writings Mary Baker Eddy has shown consistently that to obey the teachings of Christian Science, individuals must live in a Christly manner at all times. Her words in "The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and Miscellany" are a case in point.

How often the cry goes forth for freedom. Where can it be found? Many ways are offered humanly and found to be hopeless.

The listing of the name of a Christian Scientist in The Christian Science Journal as a practitioner signifies the realization of his unselfed desire to obey the command of Christ Jesus to cast out evil and heal the sick. It denotes the maturing of this desire and of his aspiration to share with mankind the truth which has brought into his own life the healing, uplifting influence of the Christ, God's divine idea.

The pessimistic conviction that heaven is always elsewhere or comes later in one's experience and that earth is a "vale of tears" or, at most, of only ephemeral value to mankind would prevent the full enjoyment of the moment and the opportunities at hand. A proper reading of the Gospels would contradict these theories.

Laws of nature are sometimes restrictive, oppressive, and unjust, but God's law is always just, constructive, uplifting, and harmonious, resulting in freedom and well being to the individual who lives in accordance with God's requirements. Mary Baker Eddy, the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, says in "Miscellaneous Writings" ( p.