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In beautiful words we are told in the first verse of Hymn No. 96 in the Christian Science Hymnal: The power that filled the garment's hem Is evermore the same.

Explaining why one can trust God to supply all good, Mary Baker Eddy writes in her book "The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and Miscellany" ( p. 186 ), "Rest assured that He in whom dwelleth all life, health, and holiness, will supply all your needs according to His riches in glory.

Mary Baker Eddy says in her article "Science and the Senses" (Miscellaneous Writings, pp. 102, 103 ): "Science defines omnipresence as universality, that which precludes the presence of evil.

What does it mean to be a friend? Our beloved Leader, Mary Baker Eddy, makes a clear distinction between love as it is often humanly understood, and love as it is spiritually discerned. She tells us in "Pulpit and Press" ( p.

In "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" Mary Baker Eddy writes ( p. 394 ), "Knowledge that we can accomplish the good we hope for, stimulates the system to act in the direction which Mind points out.

Thus saith the Lord, the Holy One of Israel, and his Maker, Ask me of things to come concerning my sons, and concerning the work of my hands command ye me. I have made the earth, and created man upon it" ( Isa.

Some people feel that their lives are governed by chance. Their existence seems constantly to shift from poise to in-harmony, from peace to discord.

The forty-second Psalm expresses in beauty and poetry, as do many of our lovely Psalms, the feelings of the Psalmist as he alternates between longing and disappointment, despair and hope in God. But he finally reaches a state of peace and harmony which is summed up in the last verse as follows: "Why art thou cast down, O my soul? and why art thou disquieted within me? hope thou in God: for I shall yet praise him, who is the health of my countenance, and my God.

Robert Browning discerned something of the nature of the spiritual universe when he wrote: There shall never be one lost good! What was, shall live as before; The evil is null, is naught, is silence implying sound; What was good shall be good, with for evil so much good more; On the earth the broken arcs; in the heaven, a perfect round. "A perfect round" or circle, the symbol of infinity, is used by Mary Baker Eddy to illustrate profound spiritual truths.

The Bible emphasizes the necessity of getting understanding. We are told ( Prov.