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Mary Baker Eddy closes her book "Retrospection and Introspection" with these words by A. E.

Our Master, Christ Jesus, founded his church on the spiritual understanding of the healing Christ, Truth. He charged his disciples to go "into all the world, and preach the gospel to every creature" ( Mark 16:15 ).

" Happiness consists in being and in doing good; only what God gives, and what we give ourselves and others through His tenure, confers happiness: conscious worth satisfies the hungry heart, and nothing else can. " This statement is found on page 17 of Mary Baker Eddy's Message to The Mother Church for 1902.

State fairs and county fairs command the interest of thousands upon thousands of people every year. Not only farmers and other country and city folks are there, but among them many business and professional people help to swell the attendance at these yearly exhibitions.

The unreality of matter is an accepted fact in Christian Science. Mary Baker Eddy discloses how this fact may be individually proved when she writes in "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" ( p.

In Christian Science practice a condition is sometimes encountered which is not usual in the practice of medicine. This is the mental stir, caused when the Word of Truth is effectually and fervently affirmed in righteous prayer in order to destroy the evil in the human mind.

"Spirit , God, is heard when the senses are silent," writes Mary Baker Eddy on page 89 of the Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures. " How important it is to silence the material senses, to listen quietly for the voice of Truth, and then to follow its directing.

The hour in which we accept the Christ wholeheartedly marks a decision which establishes us as followers of Christ Jesus in faith and in deed. That hour may come to us when, in the throes of a struggle with temptation or personal desire, we are able to rise above self-will to the spiritual altitude where it is possible for us to say, as the Master did in the garden of Gethsemane ( Matt.

The connotations of the word "dawn" bring thoughts of joy, hope, renewal, anticipation of new opportunity. However, mingled with these uplifting and joy-bringing aspirations is the realization that the glories of a material sunrise are but fleeting.

In "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" Mary Baker Eddy defines "Church" in its absolute sense as, "The structure of Truth and Love; whatever rests upon and proceeds from divine Principle" ( p. 583 ).