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In "Unity of Good," under the chapter heading "A Colloquy," Mary Baker Eddy records an imaginary conversation between good and evil. Here our Leader writes ( p.

Earnest students of Christian Science often have instantaneous healings as they strive to put into practice what they learn of Truth. If healing is not immediate, then the student knows that there is some lesson he needs to learn.

A Christian Scientist who turns to divine Truth in working out a problem either for himself or another is face to face with God. He is adjusting to the strict demand of the First Commandment ( Ex.

Moses stood on the top of a hill near Rephidim, holding in his hands the rod of God. Aaron and Hur were with him.

In an era of religious and political despotism, the teachings of Christ Jesus came as a ray of hope to the oppressed, an intellectual challenge to the learned, and a rebuke to the hypocrite. To the materialistic thinker, expecting the coming of a temporal ruler and the establishment of an earthly kingdom, it was unprecedented to be told that the kingdom of heaven was at hand, followed by the even more surprising statement that it was actually within one.

King Hezekiah , according to the record given in the thirtieth chapter of II Chronicles, sent a proclamation to his people to keep the Passover feast at Jerusalem, "for they had not done it of a long time in such sort as it was written. " And for those who were not sanctified Hezekiah prayed, saying, "The good Lord pardon every one that prepareth his heart to seek God.

Paul wrote to the Corinthians ( I Cor. 14:8, 9 ): "If the trumpet give an uncertain sound, who shall prepare himself to the battle? So likewise ye, except ye utter by the tongue words easy to be understood, how shall it be known what is spoken?" In this age when evil is clamoring aloud to control men's thinking, the mighty voice of God, Truth, should be reverberating more forcefully than ever through the many media of human communication.

In I John we read ( 3:1, 2 ): "Behold, what manner of love the Father hath bestowed upon us, that we should be called the sons of God.

" Pilgrim on earth, thy home is heaven; stranger, thou art the guest of God" (Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, p. 254 ).

" Verily , verily, I say unto you, He that believeth on me, the works that I do shall he do also. " We read these words of Christ Jesus in John ( 14:12 ).