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When Moses threw down his rod, it became a serpent. He fled from it, but God demanded ( Ex.

In the first chapter of Genesis we are told that God gave man dominion over all the earth. This man of God's creating lives by divine authority.

One who went to a Christian Science practitioner for aid in solving a problem was told, among other things, to decide what he believed or disbelieved concerning man and his relationship to God. "It is time to stop straddling," said the practitioner.

How our hearts expand with gratitude and love when we think of our Leader, Mary Baker Eddy, and her redemptive work for the salvation of all mankind! Only gratitude to God for His everlasting goodness and love gave her the courage to share her spiritual revelation. In accord with this revelation, she gave us the true meaning of Church: the demonstrating through healing of man's eternal unity with Mind, God.

" Christians must take up arms against error at home and abroad. They must grapple with sin in themselves and in others, and continue this warfare until they have finished their course.

Great deeds need great preparations. Surely the giving of a Christian Science lecture by a Church of Christ, Scientist, is the sharing of God's healing truth.

Paul's advice was to pray without ceasing. Unceasing prayer means to recognize God's perfection and man as His likeness; to be conscious of life instead of death, health in place of sickness, honesty rather than dishonesty; to discern good in ourselves and others; and to reject evil.

Mary Baker Eddy, the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, makes reference to the subject of this article in a Bible Lesson beginning on page 185 of her book "Miscellaneous Writings. " She takes as her text a passage from I Corinthians ( 15:45 ): "And so it is written, The first man Adam was made a living soul; the last Adam was made a quickening spirit.

Deliverance from evil has ever been a prayer of the human heart. Fear of evil and pleasure in sin have seemed to enslave mankind, but the advent of Christianity brought a joyous way of freedom from evil.

In the midst of a heavy fog at sea a Christian Scientist in command of a small ship gained spiritual inspiration by observing the compass. Despite the lack of visibility the navigator was still able to maintain the ship's true course because of the unvarying attraction of the compass needle to the magnetic pole.