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FOR centuries men have used salt not only to season their food, but also to preserve or conserve certain foods. In the Old Testament we even find an injunction applying particularly to the use of salt in the Jewish sacrificial rites prescribed by Moses.

FIRST-CENTURY Christians lived close to or within the era of the ministry of the master Christian, Christ Jesus. Christian Scientists today are living within the first century of the discovery of Christian Science and fewer than fifty years from the concluding years of the earthly mission of Mary Baker Eddy, its Discoverer and Founder.

IN Biblical days, when something of everlasting significance was about to take place, at times the divine admonition to stand still preceded the command to go forward. Often the first step in the demonstration of Christian Science is to pause and wait on God.

FREEDOM , complete freedom, is man's precious heritage as the son of God, not only freedom from evil, but freedom to be the perfect man whom God makes in His likeness. Man's spiritual perfection includes freedom from mental and bodily suffering as surely as from social and civil bondage.

Nearly everyone has had to deal with falsehood at some time or another. Often a lie seems harmless enough, representing merely human opinions and rumors, but again it can be very dangerous or malicious.

The search for happiness within the framework of materiality must inevitably fail. The reason is simple.

We read in Luke (17:20, 21) that when Jesus "was demanded of the Pharisees, when the kingdom of God should come, he answered them and said, The kingdom of God cometh not with observation: neither shall they say, Lo here! or, lo there! for, behold, the kingdom of God is within you. " Mary Baker Eddy says in "Miscellaneous Writings" (p.

Nothing ever "just happens. " What appears as genuine good in human experience is the manifestation of the law of God in operation, the law of divine Principle, which is Love.

" And she brought forth her firstborn son, and wrapped him in swaddling clothes, and laid him in a manger; because there was no room for them in the inn" ( Luke 2:7 ). No room in the inn.

In the legal process of deciding civic issues by ballot, the term "majority" is employed to indicate the group or party whose votes predominate, while "minority" is applied to the opposing side with the least number of votes. As used in Christian Science, however, the word "majority" has a higher, spiritual significance, an understanding of which enables the student to cast out error.