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A Christian Scientist perceived that patience is an important factor in the establishment of the kingdom of heaven within us. Therefore she searched zealously to find the true concept of patience and quickly perceived that Christian Science admits only a positive standpoint regarding it.

Basic to the teaching and practice of Christian Science is the fact that "God is not part, but the whole. " Mary Baker Eddy makes this statement in "Miscellaneous Writings" ( p.

The phrase, "a man of substance," is frequently used to indicate a person who has amassed wealth, shown by an accumulation of stocks and bonds, possession of real estate or other material objects of value, and a large bank account. The phrase indicates, in other words, a mortal plus much materiality, a person subservient to the whim of chance or change and one with no assurance of happiness or comfort from his acquisitions.

" Church " is defined in part by Mary Baker Eddy in "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" as, "The structure of Truth and Love; whatever rests upon and proceeds from divine Principle" ( p. 583 ).

" Spiritual causation is the one question to be considered, for more than all others spiritual causation relates to human progress. " This emphatic statement on page 170 of the textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy, should awaken us to recognize that in our efforts to advance to more spiritual heights, our basic need is to understand that there is but one real cause from which proceeds every true effect.

Perhaps one has been heard to say, "I am up against a blank wall; I can see no way out. " Many of us have probably been in a quandary such as this one.

The opinion occasionally expressed that life today is complex, confusing, and mechanistic should be promptly identified as a counterfeit of the unalterable truth of spiritual being. The Christian Scientist holds that man's existence as the child of God is harmonious in action and complete in fulfillment of the design of God.

Referring to Christian Science, Mary Baker Eddy writes in "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" ( p. 461 ), "Only by the illumination of the spiritual sense, can the light of understanding be thrown upon this Science, because Science reverses the evidence before the material senses and furnishes the eternal interpretation of God and man.

In a letter to one of her students, Mary Baker Eddy wrote: "A real scientific Healer is the highest position attainable in this sphere of being. Its altitude is far above a Teacher or preacher; it includes all that is divinely high and holy" (Mary Baker Eddy: A Life Size Portrait by Lyman P.

No figure in the whole of history has stirred people's thought so radically and in such different ways as that of Christ Jesus. We remember the transformation of the Magdalen and also of Zacchaeus, the publican, when their hearts were touched by the penetrating, building-up, sin-destroying power of the Christ, as expressed by Jesus.