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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.

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.