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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.

Man is defined by Mary Baker Eddy in the Glossary of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" as, "The compound idea of infinite Spirit; the spiritual image and likeness of God; the full representation of Mind" ( p. 591 ).

While a student of Christian Science soon learns to expect rapid physical healing through Science, he is sometimes less awake to the need of right expectation in regard to speedy healings of faults of character. The definition of "Gad (Jacob's son)" in the Glossary of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy is as follows ( p.

Holy Bible , book divine, Precious treasure, thou art mine: Mine to tell me whence I came; Mine to tell me what I am. This verse from Hymn No.

When Christ Jesus healed the sick and solved human problems, he proved that the utilization of the power of God brings instantaneous results. The student of Christian Science, striving to emulate the great Way-shower, sometimes wonders why his declarations of the truth of being are not attended by the same immediate healing.

No similarity exists between divine dominion and personal domination. God-given dominion springs from the impulsion of the one Mind, which holds its creation in mighty and eternal control.

Awakening is not a process that really occurs in Deity, for the divine Mind is eternally alert and active. One cannot conceive of omniactive divine Principle as ever sleeping or even requiring sleep.

Christians have always admitted the power of God to heal sin, but from about the third century until the present era they have, with a few exceptions, either denied the possibility of the Christian healing of sickness or attempted to use it merely as an adjunct to the current form of materia medica. It remained for Mary Baker Eddy to discover in the latter half of the nineteenth century the underlying Principle which Christ Jesus demonstrated and to give her discovery to the world as Christian Science.