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The vital element of a Christian Science lecture is its healing mission. The lecture combines the sowing of the seed and the gathering of the harvest of Truth, rich in health and holiness.

True prayer is our most potent weapon A for world peace. Since material solutions have been filled with uncertainty, limitations, and failure, it is not surprising that national leaders have on occasions asked for our individual prayers for guidance and protection from danger and from the complexities of modern warfare.

Infinite and eternal vision has its source in God, divine Principle. On page 586 of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" Mary Baker Eddy defines "eyes" as follows: "Spiritual discernment, —not material but mental.

When the blessed Master, Christ Jesus, taught by the wayside and proclaimed to his followers ( Matt. 4:17 ), "The kingdom of heaven is at hand," he did not leave his listeners without hope of attaining an awareness of this kingdom and its fulfillment in their lives.

Correction is indispensable to progress. Without its healthy influence, mistakes would multiply and moral blindness eventually dull one's sensibility to good.

The efficacy of Christian Science when applied to problems of human relationships demonstrates its divine origin. In the business world, methods of commerce and industry seem often to divide mortals into categories of capital and labor, management and union.

The Manual of The Mother Church by Mary Baker Eddy is an integral part of the whole Christian Science movement. The author gives it great importance when she lists it with the Bible and with her book "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" in the following passage from "The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and Miscellany" ( pp.

Today we hear much of atomic power, power politics, and aggression. It is well to understand what we mean by power, and what we credit with having power.

Working for oneself in Christian Science means prayerful communion with God and brings great joy. It is a joy which comes naturally with obedience to the By-Law given by our Leader, Mary Baker Eddy, in the Manual of The Mother Church ( Art.

Christ Jesus, shortly before the close of his earthly mission, spoke several times to his disciples of the Comforter or "Spirit of truth"' that should come into the world. He said ( John 16:12, 13 ): "I have yet many things to say unto you, but ye cannot bear them now.