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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.

Mary Baker Eddy tells us in the textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" ( p. 419 ), "Your true course is to destroy the foe, and leave the field to God, Life, Truth, and Love, remembering that God and His ideas alone are real and harmonious.

A Clearer realization of the true Science of being was never more needed than it is today. The many discoveries of material so-called science and the increasingly destructive uses to which they are being put make it necessary for students of Christian Science to see clearly the exactness of its teachings and to demonstrate to mankind that Science is divine, not material.

All of us find ourselves more or less in bondage to sensuousness, sin, suffering, and fear, although nearly two thousand years ago Jesus taught us by precept and example what we should do, and refrain from doing, to escape the evils of mortal existence. Most men, however, find the steps leading to salvation too toilsome, because they require much selflessness and overcoming.

" Lord , shew us the Father, and it sufficeth us" ( John 14:8 ). Many people have echoed this plea of Philip's.

In a world swept by doubt and insecurity men are turning with increasing urgency to the Bible for the answer to their problems and the establishment of normalcy in their lives. To such, the calm words of King Jehoshaphat to his people contain both condition and promise ( II Chron.

When some of the people acclaimed Jesus a second Elias or John the Baptist, he questioned his disciples ( Matt. 16: 15 ), "But whom say ye that I am?" Answering his Master's query, Peter, who until then had been called Simon Bar-jona, or son of Jona, replied, "Thou art the Christ, the Son of the living God.

Why should we be grateful for trials? Every trial is essentially a belief of lack; and no one enjoys lack of any kind, be it lack of health, supply, companionship, or any other good thing. Yet the Christian Scientist knows that trials can be steppingstones to spiritual understanding.