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The desire of sincere students of Christian Science is to gain more spiritual understanding and thereby to prove in ever-increasing measure the healing and regenerating power of Truth. Eagerly students search the Scriptures and the writings of the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, Mary Baker Eddy, in their efforts to unite their thoughts with God.

Rare indeed is the individual who has not longed for a nobler, more beautiful life. The loveliness of nature and the exquisite forms of art, literature, and music awaken in mankind an earnest desire to understand and express beauty more fully.

" As mortals gain more correct views of God and man, multitudinous objects of creation, which before were invisible, will become visible," declares Mary Baker Eddy in "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" (p. 264).

" When error confronts you, withhold not the rebuke or the explanation which destroys error," writes Mary Baker Eddy on page 452 of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures. " A study of the Gospels reveals that many times the rebukes of Christ Jesus destroyed error, healed the individual, and restored calm.

Christian Science treatment is safe and powerful because it is based on the Science of being—the truth that God, Love, is omnipotent, omnipresent, and omniscient and that God and His creation are all that exist. There is no other creator or creation.

Most people readily perceive the damaging nature of animosity. But the equally harmful nature of a false sense of love, called personal attachment, is not always so easily discerned.

Under the First Amendment to the Constitution of the United States the people are granted certain inalienable rights, such as freedom of speech and freedom to worship. These rights cannot be given away or disposed of even if one wished to do so.

The vital element of a Christian Science lecture is its healing mission. The lecture combines the sowing of the seed and the gathering of the harvest of Truth, rich in health and holiness.

True prayer is our most potent weapon A for world peace. Since material solutions have been filled with uncertainty, limitations, and failure, it is not surprising that national leaders have on occasions asked for our individual prayers for guidance and protection from danger and from the complexities of modern warfare.

Infinite and eternal vision has its source in God, divine Principle. On page 586 of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" Mary Baker Eddy defines "eyes" as follows: "Spiritual discernment, —not material but mental.