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Each annual association meeting of class-taught students of Christian Science shows the fruitage of Mind's unfoldment. What a worthy occasion! We should come to Love's feast with Open hearts and willing hands, Eager ears, expectant, joyful, Ready for Thy right commands, as we read in Hymn No.

The pattern for triumphant living was set by Jesus, who not only understood but proved that Life is God, divine and eternal. His purely spiritual perception enabled him to see perfection in all God's creation.

" The blessing of the Lord, it maketh rich, and he addeth no sorrow with it" ( Prov. 10:22 ).

Christian Science shows the great importance of watching our thinking so that our thoughts and deeds are always in perfect agreement with the law of God. By casting the weight of our thinking on the side of God, we find that there is no other side in God's scale, for He, Mind, is All, and there is no matter.

What a great blessing it would be if we might awake to find ourselves free from the false sense of self to which each of us refers as "I. " We should no longer bind ourselves with such thoughts as, "I am overburdened; I am growing old; I am a mortal sinner.

Many students of Christian Science have found helpful comparisons in mathematics, that exact science to which De Quincey referred as having "not a foot to stand upon which is not purely metaphysical. " In the Science of Christianity, as in the science of numbers, positive and negative are never blurred, the rules are invariable, explicit, and eternally demonstrable.

The realization and application of the truths of man's spiritual origin, as taught in Christian Science, inevitably result in healing. The following instance illustrates this.

A Student of Christian Science has vivid recollections of hearing, during the latter part of her school years, the subject of perpetual motion discussed with great fervor from a purely material standpoint. She felt that the ideas expressed were quite beyond her ability to grasp or comprehend and left it at that.

Christian Science teaches us that it is wise never to shirk the responsibility that is ours, or to take on work which belongs to another. Mary Baker Eddy writes in her Message to The Mother Church for 1900 ( p.

Giving credence to the theory that God, good, is not ever present is the underlying source of the illusion that sin, disease, and death are real. The recognition of the omnipotence, omniscience, and omnipresence of immortal Being eliminates this false sense of error and brings joy, peace, health, and harmony into our experience.