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It is widely known that Mary Baker Eddy, the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, established the precedent of dedicating Christian Science church edifices only after they have been fully paid for. When the Original Mother Church edifice was in the process of construction and her followers were laboring faithfully to supply the necessary money and to see that the construction work was not allowed to cease, our Leader inspired her followers to give evidence of willingness to pay the price of steady spiritualization of thought and life.

In speaking of Jesus' healing mission and its permanent dispensation through Christian Science, Mary Baker Eddy says in "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" ( p. 150 ), "Now, as then, signs and wonders are wrought in the metaphysical healing of physical disease; but these signs are only to demonstrate its divine origin,— to attest the reality of the higher mission of the Christ-power to take away the sins of the world.

Error seems very real and troublesome and tenacious sometimes. The truth appears to be shut out or trodden down, but in reality it cannot be; truth is never less than truth itself.

I climb , with joy, the heights of Mind, To soar o'er time and space; I yet shall know as I am known And see Thee face to face. The inspired thought of these much-loved words, found in Hymn No.

After Christ Jesus had received the blessed benediction from our heavenly Father ( Matt. 3:17 ), "This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased," he went into the wilderness and fasted forty days and forty nights.

Mankind in general has always believed in the necessity of a dependence upon persons, places, and things for health and happiness—in fact, for existence. Christian Science comes to this age to reveal the utter falsity of dependence upon matter and to demonstrate with divine logic the self-completeness of man as the image and likeness of God.

As he studied the Manual of The Mother Church by Mary Baker Eddy, the writer was interested in noting that our Leader has specifically provided for the teaching of Christian Science in Normal classes convening every three years, in Primary classes held yearly, and in Sunday School classes taught weekly. From his study, he realized that all who are thus authorized to teach have a truly sacred privilege.

In the Bible the word Spirit is given as a name for God; therefore it is so used in Christian Science. Because God is Spirit and man is made in His image and likeness, as we read in the first chapter of Genesis, man is spiritual.

In order to attain the state of mind that heals the sick and the sinning, we must accept and prove, at least in part, the fundamental truth which Mary Baker Eddy states in "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" ( p. 276 ), "Man and his Maker are correlated in divine Science, and real consciousness is cognizant only of the things of God.

At the time of the completion of the Extension of The Mother Church in 1906, the incoming President in his address made these pertinent remarks (The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and Miscellany, by Mary Baker Eddy, pp. 43, 44 ): "The world looks with wonder upon this grand achievement,—the completion and dedication of our magnificent temple,—and many are asking, 'What mean ye by these stones?' The answer is, The way out of the wilderness of human beliefs has been revealed.