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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.

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.