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When a branch Church of Christ, Scientist, has not yet dedicated its edifice, its members naturally look forward to this happy experience. The dedication ceremony does not take place until their church is entirely free from financial indebtedness.

Mary Baker Eddy in her book "Miscellaneous Writings" refers to supply and demand as a law of God and says that under this law supply always meets demand (see page 45). This law is universal in scope, and it is as readily applicable to the claims of financial lack and limitation as it is to the healing of moral and physical ills.

We are living in momentous times, in a period of unrest, of upheaval—in an age when there is a crumbling away of beliefs and habits which for centuries have held sway over humanity. Faith in matter, in material thinking, and in material existence is gradually disappearing.

In the Bible we read of Elijah ( I Kings 19:9, 11 ): "He came thither unto a cave, and lodged there; and, behold, the word of the Lord came to him, .

In Christian Science we learn that there are actually no dead-end roads, no insurmountable barriers, no walls of partition. This absolute statement of truth can be proved now as in Scriptural times.

Let the designation "law" be applied to any phase of worldy existence, and mankind is prone to accept it as immutable. A dictionary defines "immutable" as "unchangeable; invariable"; yet only in a very few instances, such as in the field of mathematics, does one find law even remotely approaching immutability.

The ancient Biblical pronouncement that Adam should "till the ground from whence he was taken" ( Gen. 3:23 ) has often been associated through the centuries with the toil of one's hands.

A Man who had started on an automobile trip before daylight stopped soon after the dawn so that he could enjoy the freshness of the morning and the early songs of the birds. As the glorious coloring of the sunrise appeared, he thought of the words of a hymn (Christian Science Hymnal, No.

The Christian Science Hymnal is a book especially loved by Christian Scientists. By holding fast to the truths expressed therein, countless numbers have been healed, hearts uplifted, and problems solved.

Moses , in his God-inspired instructions for righteous living to the Hebrew people, included this pertinent counsel ( Ex. 23:1 ): "Thou shalt not raise a false report: put not thine hand with the wicked to be an unrighteous witness.