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In answering the question, " Can your Science cure intemperance ?" Mary Baker Eddy states in her book "Miscellaneous Writings" ( p. 37 ): "Christian Science lays the axe at the root of the tree.

A conviction of God's presence embodies power to enforce itself. The glory of Christian Science is that it supplies the base for this conviction and brings healing within the reach of all.

THE average individual spends a large amount of time thinking about his body —its weight, its appetites, its pains and pleasures, its beauty and appearance. When one becomes a sincere student of Christian Science, thought about the body begins to lessen, for he sees, in the light of this Science, that the material body is an illusion formed by the material senses and is not part of man at all.

THE boughs that bear most, hang lowest. " These words of Thomas Fuller hint at the nature of humility.

GOD and man in His image and likeness are eternally at one, coexistent, inseparable, yet distinct as Father-Mother and child, Mind and idea, cause and effect. Their individuality and function are eternally distinct; therefore man never loses his identity, his immortal individuality.

THE prophet Ezekiel gives us in Chapter 47 a vivid account of his vision of the holy waters. He describes how his angel guide led him through waters that came first to the ankles, then to the knees.

IN the first epistle of John, the beloved disciple said ( 1:5 ), "This then is the message which we have heard of him, and declare unto you, that God is light, and in him is no darkness at all. " This utterance clearly bears the impress of Christ Jesus' influence on John's thoughts.

ON page 1 of "Rudimental Divine Science" by Mary Baker Eddy is found this question, " How would you define Christian Science? " And it is answered thus: "As the law of God, the law of good, interpreting and demonstrating the divine Principle and rule of universal harmony. " What a glorious awakening comes to the Christian Scientist when he learns that there is only one law, the law of God, Truth, Life, and Love! God's law is always operating right where error seems to be.

IF the Christian of today turns to the Bible for comfort and healing, he will find in it a good many accounts of what are generally called miracles. He may think with regret that these miracles were possible only in the past; he may even believe that the power to perform miracles was a supernatural gift of grace bestowed on exceptional individuals.

HOW important it is that each individual understand and demonstrate constantly the nature, presence, power, and love of God! Indeed, this is the mark of the genuine Christian Scientist. It is for this reason that he studies each day his textbooks, the Bible and "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy.