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In "The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and Miscellany" Mary Baker Eddy makes this important statement in connection with the scientific demonstration of truth ( p. 242 ): "Christian Science is absolute; it is neither behind the point of perfection nor advancing towards it; it is at this point and must be practised therefrom.

Have we taken time today to be quiet? Have we turned aside from the rush and pressure of human affairs and, in the silence of spiritual communion with the one God, renewed our confidence, strength, and joy, praying for others as well as for ourselves? If so, then we have returned to our tasks refreshed and comforted. Mary Baker Eddy set the example of communing with God, as she did in so many right things.

The theology of Christian Science includes the healing of sickness as well as of sin and by the same spiritual means. Physical healing is not the more important, but it does illustrate the signs which follow the reformation of thought and action.

The challenge of church activity is a spiritual one. Mary Baker Eddy defines "Church" on page 583 of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" in two parts.

Mary Baker Eddy states a fundamental teaching of Christian Science in these lines from "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" ( p. 492 ): "For right reasoning there should be but one fact before the thought, namely, spiritual existence.

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.