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Love , joyous gratitude, confidence, and scientific knowledge concur in a Christian Science treatment, or prayer. Scientific knowledge declares that divine Love creates, governs, and maintains its creation in perfect likeness to itself.

As one studies the teaching of Christian Science he learns to appreciate more deeply than ever before the debt of gratitude which we owe to the master Christian for his life of complete devotion to and love for mankind. His great mission is clearly stated in his own words ( John 10:10 ): "I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly.

Jesus said ( John 14:12 ), "He that believeth on me, the works that I do shall he do also; and greater works than these shall he do; because I go unto my Father. " This is a significant declaration that the truths of Christian healing belong to every age and may be practiced by everyone who is sincerely seeking the truth.

When one makes the statement, "I am a Christian Scientist," he issues to himself the most challenging call in present experience. To demonstrate scientifically the presence and power of the Christ, the divine manifestation of God, is the most revolutionary and at the same time most healing factor in human experience.

A Student of Christian Science was confronted with the question, "Could Paul, if he were here, with the great financial demands of today, speak so confidently about 'always having all sufficiency in all things'?" ( II Cor. 9:8.

DO we remember often enough that God always has available for man every treasure of good? Sometimes when the darkness of materiality seems very real to us, we are tempted to believe that lack, unhappiness, and sickness are real and natural, and that good is unnatural and miraculous. The fact is that the infinite vastness of God's goodness is ever available to all.

Divine Love lived is the royal way to health, happiness, and success. Knowing this, Christ Jesus brought to the world a scientific and demonstrable system of Christly works which gave substance and life to his beautiful and comforting words.

Gathered in Concord, New Hampshire, on July 4, 1897, some twenty-five hundred members of The First Church of Christ, Scientist, in Boston, Massachusetts, listened to an address by Mary Baker Eddy, the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science. Keynoting her remarks to the day, Mrs.

It is natural to have a desire for good, and since God is good, is this not really a desire to do God's will? Much of humanity has an innate sense of a will higher than its own, one wholly good, wholly separate and apart from the utterly unreliable, unpredictable force called the human will. However, unless one knows what God's will is and how to avail himself of it, he is quite likely to become thwarted and frustrated by the various eccentricities and demands of the human will.

How many mortals realize that God's law is a divine energy inexorably grinding to dust, nothingness, the vast range of material beliefs that have afflicted mankind? Some may say, "can this be true when we see around us calamity, sickness, and the constant threat of world upheaval?" The divine energy is ever at work, wearing away the adamant of material belief and its lies of sin, disease, discord, and death, thus lifting humanity into higher realms of thought and action. Through the practice of Christian Science innumerable people have been blessed by the scientific application of God's law, have learned a better way of life, and have found relief from misery, doubt and fear, sickness and poverty.