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Mary Baker Eddy discovered and demonstrated the value of spiritual discernment in the healing of sin and sickness. For this she is entitled to the gratitude and appreciation of the whole world.

Christ Jesus was the world's greatest student and practitioner of divine law. It could be said of him, in the words of the Psalmist ( Ps.

Christian Science reveals God as infinite, All. Therefore He is supreme over all.

We gain spirituality as we relinquish false human ambitions, hopes, and desires to the will of God. If we are reluctant to do so, it is because we have not sufficient faith to trust God with our problems.

It is sometimes difficult for students of Christian Science to decide which duties are of primal importance in the daily order of living. Does not the temptation come to many of us to be like Martha, whom Christ Jesus described as "careful and troubled about many things" ( Luke 10:41 )? The pressure of family or business responsibilities, social or church obligations, sometimes causes one to neglect to emulate Martha's sister, whom Jesus commended thus: "One thing is needful: and Mary hath chosen that good part.

Joy is a quality so universally sought that no one denies its desirability. Only the manner of its attainment is in question.

Instantaneous healings result from the spiritual understanding that a perfect God has created all and has created it good. Not all healings are instantaneous in the sense that error is quickly destroyed and harmony immediately realized.

The teaching that death is the door through which mortals may enter the kingdom of heaven, the realm of God, has been a stumbling block in the path of spiritual understanding for centuries. The beloved Master, Christ Jesus, says in speaking of this kingdom ( Luke 17:21 ), "Neither shall they say, Lo here! or, lo there! for, behold, the kingdom of God is within you.

When one receives a very precious gift, his first thoughts are naturally of joy and gratitude. Then if he is wise, he begins to think of ways and means to safeguard and protect his treasure.

The understanding of the nature and source of spiritual power is essential to the student of Christian Science, for it is the spiritual power in the Christian Science treatment which heals the sick, casts out sin, and restores harmony where discord has appeared to reign. Without spiritual power, the demonstration of Christian Science would not be possible, and Science would be an abstract theory.