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The Christ, which reveals the right idea of everything, is never, to spiritual sense, veiled or obscured, never enveloped in materiality, which claims to be either good or bad. The Christ is always present, showing forth eternal perfection in the form, outline, color, and in the being of spiritual man, the only real man.

Mary Baker Eddy expected her followers to keep abreast of the times. This may indicate that Christian Scientists should grow in the understanding and demonstration of Truth's revelation to their Leader so that they may keep pace with the spiritual opportunities and demands of advancing ages.

The tiny seedling holds a promise. As it germinates, pale shoots push upward through the earth; then new leaves reach out to the sunlight, the stem lengthens, and at last the flower blooms in full perfection.

One of the most comforting chapters in the Bible is the ninety-first Psalm. Its loved verses come to one's thought innumerable times as the need arises for comfort, guidance, and protection.

Deep within the heart of almost every individual lies the desire for self-expression, for purposeful living, for some measure of attainment in his chosen field of endeavor. This desire is not necessarily based upon vanity or self-aggrandizement, because the sole reason for man's being is to express God, the divine Mind, who created him.

In many progressive industrial organizations there is an important department called "Quality Control. " The purpose of this department is to maintain a constant control of the perfection of the items produced.

Many students of Christian Science find ever fresh joy in the daily, prayerful contemplation of the seven synonyms for God, given on page 465 of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy. Her reply to the question, "What is God?" is as follows: "God is incorporeal, divine, supreme, infinite Mind, Spirit, Soul, Principle, Life, Truth, Love.

The revelation through Christian Science of the perfection of God and man ultimately demands the relinquishment of all belief in a power and presence unlike good. Faithful obedience to the First Commandment ( Ex.

During the first few weeks of my attendance at services in a branch Church of Christ, Scientist, I read and pondered a quotation by Mary Baker Eddy which was inscribed on the wall of the church. The statement read in part: "Jesus' three days' work in the sepulchre set the seal of eternity on time" (see The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and Miscellany, p.

" To be carnally minded is death; but to be spiritually minded is life and peace. " These words of Paul ( Rom.