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Although the word shadow is frequently used in the Bible to convey the thought of God's sheltering presence and tender protection, it is sometimes used to denote a sense of gloom. When we use it in the latter sense we may understand that it refers to nothing more than a fleeting boast to power and subtance, which disappears before the radiant understanding of God's allness.

Christian Science teaches that God is All-in-all. As the understanding of this fact enlightens individual consciousness, it acts as a law of Truth to heal both sin and disease.

It is interesting to examine our ideas concerning space, which of necessity is infinite and includes all. One of the tendencies of the human mind is to isolate the individual from the rest of the universe.

One of the many blessings that come to us through the study of Christian Science is the awakening to the meaning of accurate thinking. Often before starting the study of this Science many of us had no real basis for our thinking.

Christian Scientists deeply desire to express the Christ-spirit that brings healing. Therefore it is incumbent upon every Christian Scientist to consider whether his judgment of others rests upon the Christly desire to heal or, on the contrary, tends to fasten evil upon a person or persons.

Mary Baker Eddy states in "Miscellaneous Writings" ( pp. 144, 145 ), "The Church, more than any other institution, at present is the cement of society, and it should be the bulwark of civil and religious liberty.

The instructions of Christian Science coincide at all points with the teachings of the Scriptures. In no one aspect is this fact more in evidence than in its declarations and proof of the oneness of God.

" Life is real, and death is the illusion. " This concise statement concerning one of the most difficult problems confronting humanity is found on page 428 of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy.

After Paul had founded the church at Corinth, factionalism and divisions threatened to destroy its unity and effectiveness. Paul was greatly concerned for the spiritual welfare of these early followers of the Christ, and his two epistles to them, which appear in the New Testament, testify to this solicitude.

In "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" Mary Baker Eddy writes ( pp. 307, 308 ): "Above error's awful din, blackness, and chaos, the voice of Truth still calls: 'Adam, where art thou? Consciousness, where art thou? Art thou dwelling in the belief that mind is in matter, and that evil is mind, or art thou in the living faith that there is and can be but one God, and keeping His commandment?'" With what penetrating directness Mrs.