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The revelation through Christian Science of the perfection of God and man ultimately demands the relinquishment of all belief in a power and presence unlike good. Faithful obedience to the First Commandment ( Ex.

During the first few weeks of my attendance at services in a branch Church of Christ, Scientist, I read and pondered a quotation by Mary Baker Eddy which was inscribed on the wall of the church. The statement read in part: "Jesus' three days' work in the sepulchre set the seal of eternity on time" (see The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and Miscellany, p.

" To be carnally minded is death; but to be spiritually minded is life and peace. " These words of Paul ( Rom.

The Bible records God's promises of freedom from sin, disease, and death. How often the heart weighted by woe asks this question: "Are God's promises for me?" Christian Science declares that God's promises are for all mankind.

Do we see a sinful man at times, perhaps a hateful or a sick man, or do we even seem to be such a man? By reversing the erroneous, material sense testimony, we can never find false qualities in man, for man is the expression of God. God, good, is ever present, and evil is never where God is; hence it is ever absent.

The child of an Army officer was playing house in the busy lobby of a hotel. Another guest sympathetically said, "Isn't it too bad you have no home?" "Oh, we do have a home," the little girl replied; "we just have no house to put it in.

Since God is the only cause and creator, it follows in divine Science that all must be good; and, since God fills all space, there is no room for sickness. The realization of these facts brings health into one's consciousness and also the proof that in true being, God governs all in perfect harmony.

As I rode through the snow-covered mountains one spring, it was beautiful, clear, sunshiny weather, with blue skies, and fleecy clouds floating above the mountains. The rivers and streams were flowing full, because a few days before there had been some warm weather and the snow had started to melt.

Some form of restoration is always a concomitant of spiritual inspiration. The Psalmist prayed "Miscellaneous Writings" ( p.

" Truth is always the victor," Mary Baker Eddy writes on page 380 of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures. " To one who may be frightened or discouraged with what has seemed to be a long and unrelenting siege of suffering, these words bring immeasurable comfort.