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Through the study of Christian Science we become aware of our true status as spiritual sons and daughters of God and know that we are now in reality perfect, spiritual, immortal. We awaken, therefore, to learn that mortal mind and mortal existence are not of God's creating and thus are wholly untrue and unreal.

One of the most valuable lessons learned by the student of Christian Science is the true meaning of Love. According to the King James Version of the Bible, in the wonderful thirteenth chapter of I Corinthians, Paul indicates clearly the utter impotence of any activity which is not based on charity; and he adds, "Charity never faileth.

Those who have not yet found Christian Science and its comforting assurance in these days of mounting human turmoil and misgiving might understandably echo the anguished and poignant cry recorded in Jeremiah (8:20,22) : "The harvest is past, the summer is ended, and we are not saved.

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.