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Man's identity is revealed in Christian Science as spiritual. This Science repudiates the Adam-myth that man is a fleshly mortal, materially conceived and brought forth.

Through the leaven of Spirit mortal thought is changed. This action is as definite, as practical, and as permanent as is the change effected by yeast in the properties of bread dough.

The oneness, or unity, of God and man, of divine cause and effect, is basic in the teachings of Christian Science. Christ Jesus stated this truth clearly when he said ( John 10:30 ), "I and my Father are one.

I sing my way today, My heart is joyous, free, For what is Thine is ever mine, I find myself in Thee. This verse from the Christian Science Hymnal (No.

Christ Jesus promised ( John 5:24 ), "He that heareth my word, and believeth on him that sent me, hath everlasting life, and shall not come into condemnation; but is passed from death unto life. " In the face of this glorious promise, how can mankind mutely accept the evidence of death as unavoidable and inevitable? It is only animal magnetism, mesmerism, or ignorance of God which would keep us from demanding of ourselves that we learn the way to overcome death.

" Mind is not helpless. Intelligence is not mute before non-intelligence.

" Eternity, not time, expresses the thought of Life, and time is no part of eternity. One ceases in proportion as the other is recognized.

" Transcending the evidence of the material senses, Science declares God to be the Soul of all being, the only Mind and intelligence in the universe. " To make practical these words by Mary Baker Eddy in "Unity of Good" ( p.

The day Christ Jesus stopped at the shore of the Sea of Galilee and asked Simon Peter and Andrew to become his followers, they were busy at their tasks as fishermen. Had they been guided by human will, they might have replied that they did not want to leave their relatives, friends, or home; or they could have objected to giving up a familiar occupation for an untried way of life; or they might have expressed doubt that they would be equal to the work ahead of them as disciples of the Master.

The Magna Charta of Christian Science, which appears in Mary Baker Eddy's work entitled "The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and Miscellany," was first published in the Journal of June, 1904. It reads as follows ( pp.