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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.

The Christ is here, all dreams of error breaking, Unloosing bonds of all captivity. These words of a loved hymn in the Christian Science Hymnal (No.

When one has the high goal before his thought, his tasks are less arduous, his state of mind much happier and freer, and his accomplishments greater. Without this vision, work may become monotonous, boresome, mediocre, and perhaps finally a failure.

One who had suffered untold agonies from a feeling of inferiority was given this startling bit of counsel: "Always see yourself in the sunlight. " The words did nothing but mystify her, since the sunlight meant to her at that time only the light of solar beams.

One of mankind's most heart-rending afflictions is grief. In spite of human theorizing that time and circumstances can heal it, individuals have sometimes suffered its pangs for years.

" The divine Principle of man speaks through immortal sense," we read on page 72 of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures. " On the same page its author, Mary Baker Eddy, says, "Not personal intercommunion but divine law is the communicator of truth, health, and harmony to earth and humanity.