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" Truth is always the victor. " These thought-provoking words appear on page 380 of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy.

A Little girl stood gazing out over a beautiful landscape, brilliant with color. She was enchanted by the view, and turning to her mother, she exclaimed, "Aren't we grateful that God made everything in technicolor?" This incident brought to the writer's thought the deep gratitude which flooded her consciousness when she began the study of Christian Science and discovered that spiritual beauty, color, symmetry, and radiancy are essential qualities of God's creation—wholly spiritual.

Exultation surely has a place in Christian Science. According to one definition, "exult" means "to rejoice in triumph; to glory, as in victory.

In determining the validity of a treasury note, or bill, a bank teller is guided by his knowledge of the genuine article. In other words, he adheres to the known facts about the original for his information.

Can we ever be outside the presence of infinite Love, the very source and substance of our being? Certainly not. To be cut off or shut out from Life in all its completeness, permanency, and beauty is impossible when we comprehend that God is man's Life.

" The supremacy of Spirit was the foundation on which Jesus built. " So writes Mary Baker Eddy in "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" ( p.

From what is said to be the beginning of time, the thought of mankind has longed for direction by a power greater than itself and has sought it in the phenomena of a material sense of life. How understandable then that Christians everywhere should innately recognize in the occasion of the birth of the babe Jesus the appearing to mankind of the Christ-consciousness.

" Day may decline and shadows fall, but darkness flees when the earth has again turned upon its axis. The sun is not affected by the revolution of the earth.

It is recorded in the seventeenth chapter of Matthew that the father of a sick child once brought his son to Christ Jesus' disciples, pleading for a restoration of the lad's health. The disciples failed to cast out the error, however, and the case was subsequently referred to the Master, who rebuked the false sense and effected an instantaneous cure.

Centuries ago John the Baptist was sent by God to bear witness to the coming of Christ Jesus, the Son of God, and to prepare the thought of the people to receive him. As John was baptizing beyond Jordan, he saw Jesus coming toward him and said ( John 1:29 ), "Behold the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world.