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Jesus healed all kinds of diseases as well as untoward conditions to which the people of his day were subjected. We know from the Gospels that he did not consider any disease or condition beyond healing and that he expected healing to be instantaneous.

One of the priceless possessions that Christian Science gives to its students is an eternal Christmas. To the Christian Scientist, Christmas is not confined to the birthday of Jesus, our great Teacher and Way-shower, but is based upon the eternality of the Christ, as exemplified by the Master, and thus is daily available in all its helpfulness.

" The creature itself also shall be delivered from the bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of the children of God," the Apostle Paul declared ( Rom. 8:21 ).

" This church is a branch of The Mother Church, The First Church of Christ, Scientist, in Boston, Massachusetts. " This announcement, read by the First Reader in a branch Church of Christ, Scientist, and followed by details of the branch church services, Sunday School, and Reading Rooms, brought much helpful unfoldment to a student of Christian Science.

The problem of supply and employment is one with which mankind has been faced down through the ages. Christ Jesus in his Sermon on the Mount set forth the rule in regard to this problem ( Matt.

" Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth" ( II Tim. 2:15 ).

In "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" Mary Baker Eddy writes ( p. 450 ), "The Christian Scientist has enlisted to lessen evil, disease, and death; and he will overcome them by understanding their nothingness and the allness of God, or good.

Christian Science teaches that God is omnipresent Being. In every age countless people have recognized the presence of God.

Christian Science came to the world as a new tongue, destined to break through the limits and barriers of human language and speech. Those who daily prove its healing power do not depend upon stereotyped phrases or the mere letter of Science.

In answer to the question, "What are body and Soul?" (Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, p. 477 ) Mary Baker Eddy writes in part: "Identity is the reflection of Spirit, the reflection in multifarious forms of the living Principle, Love.