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Modern doctors and psychiatrists agree with what Christian Science has been proclaiming to the world for over seventy-five years, namely that negative and morbid thinking has a bad effect on the body. But there the agreement ends.

When we consider a building, a bridge, an airplane, or any one of the variety of modern-day useful wonders, we might well ponder the questions: What is the actual substance of this project? What is it that gives a building its usefulness, an airplane its capacity to fly, or a bridge its serviceability and dependability? Certainly it is the intelligence that conceived it and brought it forth. Without intelligence there would be nothing but a useless, shapeless mass of raw material without meaning.

Everyone recognizes the importance of looking in the direction in which he is going, whether traveling on the highway, selecting the college to further his education, or searching for health. There is great need today for physical, moral, and spiritual health in the business world, in politics, and in the relationship of all peoples of the earth.

Each member of the Church of Christ, Scientist, would do well to remind himself often of the purpose for which Mary Baker Eddy founded this Church, lest he take his membership for granted and so lose something of his first joy. Whereas a young student may eagerly study the Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," and other writings by Mrs.

As we go about our daily affairs it is not an unusual experience to hear people discussing their problems. One may say that his problem is ill-health; another that it is lack.

Perhaps in no one thing is Mary Baker Eddy more vindicated as God's appointed revelator than in the unfailing consistency of her statement of the truth. Even as she has given us seven synonyms for the one God, so has she patiently presented His law and its operation from countless viewpoints.

" What is man, that thou art mindful of him? and the son of man, that thou visitest him?" ( Ps. 8:4.

Christian Science healing is based upon the understanding of the allness of God, Spirit, and the nothingness of matter. Its foundations were laid when Mary Baker Eddy glimpsed the reality of Spirit sufficiently to be restored from what was deemed a fatal injury as she pondered the account in the Bible of Jesus' healing of the palsied man (Matt.

In her autobiography, "Retrospection and Introspection," Mary Baker Eddy writes ( p. 80 ), "There are no greater miracles known to earth than perfection and an unbroken friendship.

There is something so divine and unalterable in Christ Jesus' many wonderful statements of truth that no one can doubt that they point to a fixed Principle governing all existence. Also the Master's loving, healing ministry evidences the demonstration of this Principle in human affairs.