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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.

Mankind in their ignorance of the all-embracing love of God are prone to think that much of their human experience is comprised of coping or striving with some untoward circumstance. They reason, If this or that condition, or this or that person, would only yield or change, all would be well.

The Christian Scientist cherishes his faith in the ability of divine Love to unfold to him the way to establish his individual church membership upon the rock of spiritual understanding, In her immortal definition of "Church" given in "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" Mary Baker Eddy uses only the present tense. Her definition reads ( p.

In the year 1893, during the World's Fair held in Chicago, Illinois, Mary Baker Eddy, the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, received invitations from some of her followers in that city to share the hospitality of their homes. She answered these plans for her pleasure with a card in The Christian Science Journal which included the following sentences: "I have a world of wisdom and Love to contemplate, that concerns me, and you, infinitely beyond all earthly expositions or exhibitions.

When we look upon the world as it seems today, we behold men struggling everywhere for freedom. There are many forms of bondage, but all may be traced back to one delusive source, the belief of mind in matter or a power apart from God, ultimating in sin, disease, and death.

Every sincere Christian Scientist aspires to become an instantaneous healer. This creditable ambition can be realized, however, only as the metaphysician demonstrates man's oneness, or unity, with divine Love, the direct source of all spiritual power.

Demonstration is proof. Whatever is provable at any time is equally provable at this moment.

In Churches of Christ, Scientist, the reading of the Lesson-Sermon, as given in the Christian Science Quarterly , brings comfort and healing not only to the congregation but to the Readers as well. A Reader whose motive is service to God and man, whose whole heart is given to the Cause of Christian Science, knows that spiritual sense alone unfolds the inspiration necessary for his part in a right reading of these wonderful Lesson-Sermons; for it is through spiritual discernment that Truth is understood.