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In one of her beautiful messages to branch churches our revered Leader, Mary Baker Eddy, points to the necessity of expressing the attribute of courage if we would gain the crown of life. "Immortal courage," she says, "fills the human breast and lights the living way of Life" (The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and Miscellany, p.

All Christian Scientists find helpful and inspiring Mary Baker Eddy's definition of "Church"' on page 583 of their textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures. " The first paragraph gives the completely spiritual concept of Church, telling us that it is "the structure of Truth and Love; whatever rests upon and proceeds from divine Principle.

Christian Science is religion in the truest sense of the word. It is a way of living rather than a theory about life.

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.