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" The Lord spake unto Moses face to face, as a man speaketh unto his friend" ( Ex. 33:11 ).

Our beloved Leader, Mary Baker Eddy, with her usual foresight and wisdom, made provision through the Manual of The Mother Church for the Christian Science nurse. In Article VIII, Section 31, of the Manual she writes: "A member of The Mother Church who represents himself or herself as a Christian Science nurse shall be one who has a demonstrable knowledge of Christian Science practice, who thoroughly understands the practical wisdom necessary in a sick room, and who can take proper care of the sick.

It is hard to imagine that anyone would deliberately turn off a beautiful, straight highway onto an unknown, devious, bumpy road if he were really eager to reach his destination. Yet is not this just what we do when we depart from the mental road of clear, straight thinking into the bypaths of self-deception, self-will, discouragement, or fear? The Bible has many references to the way—the straight way that leads to the kingdom of heaven or the promised land, which is the place all mankind is really seeking.

Christian Science practice is the realization of the allness of God and of the established nature, completeness, orderliness, and eternality of His creation. It is the continual contemplation and expectation of good only, the denial and the casting out of every form of error as unreal.

When the truth of Christian Science was first revealed to our beloved Leader, Mary Baker Eddy, she did not intend to establish a new church, but she expected that the Christian churches would gladly accept her discovery. She soon realized, however, that these established churches were not prepared to receive her discovery and that in order to promote the Cause of Christian Science and make its healing and redemptive mission available to mankind, she must found a church for that purpose.

A Counsel of perfection! Sometimes this expression seems to be used in a rather sad, depreciatory way, as though counseling perfection might be likened to wishful thinking. But perfection is not an impossible ideal, since among the commands of the master Christian we find these words ( Matt.

" Remember , thou canst be brought into no condition, be it ever so severe, where Love has not been before thee and where its tender lesson is not awaiting thee. Therefore despair not nor murmur, for that which seeketh to save, to heal, and to deliver, will guide thee, if thou seekest this guidance.

The light of God's radiant being expressed by the Christ dawned upon Isaiah when he said ( Isa. 60:1 ), "Arise, shine; for thy light is come, and the glory of the Lord is risen upon thee.

Eternal Life, free from all material, unreal restrictions, is the true Light and substance of all. This substance becomes apparent through Christian Science, the law of divine Principle.

When news came to Paul that the little Christian church which he had founded in Galatia was wavering in its faith and loyalty, he wrote to it the stirring epistle called "Galatians" in the New Testament of the Holy Bible. This epistle, though written some nineteen centuries ago, is quite as valuable to us today as it was to those pioneer Christians of the first century.