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In "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" Mary Baker Eddy defines first the absolute spiritual sense of Church, and then the function of Church as it relates to human experience. The entire definition follows (p.

The promotion of universal equality and freedom through material systems of regimentation is doomed to failure because such methods do not take into account the spiritual facts of being. Instead of freeing men to express their God-bestowed capabilities, these methods stultify individual initiative; instead of unifying men and nations in brotherhood, they estrange them.

Mary Baker Eddy , through the textbook of Christian Science, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," and her other published writings on this profound subject, has made available to mankind a knowledge of God, of good, that can be demonstrated in daily life. This demonstration is manifested here and now in health, holiness, abundance, and joy.

Through a spiritual understanding of the Bible we learn that joy—permanent and indestructible joy—is attainable. Isaiah prophesied ( 35:10 ), "The ransomed of the Lord shall return, and come to Zion with songs and everlasting joy upon their heads: they shall obtain joy and gladness, and sorrow and sighing shall flee away.

Christian Science stands before the world without apology for its teachings. This statement scarcely needs to be made, so proved are the Tenets and practices of the religion founded by Mary Baker Eddy.

In thousands of hearts in countless places over the known world an upsurging of praise rises in fuller and fuller volume to certify the might, wisdom, and presence of God as revealed in Christian Science. That this revelation of assurance is finding further acceptance and practical fruition is given acknowledgment repeatedly by those whom it has blessed, through the earnest assertion, "I am grateful for Christian Science.

In contrast with the elements involved in the practice of material chemistry, those which are primal to Deity exist forever in perfect agreement. These elements, or spiritual qualities, are reflected by God's man in perfect harmony and never result in discordant or destructive complications.

The law of God is as operative in the world today as it was centuries ago, and it is being demonstrated by Christian Scientists in healing, protection, and regeneration. The miracles which the Bible records are understood in Christian Science to be natural, not supernatural, and to evidence the constant operation of divine law.

The dawning of the morning comes in varying ways. In most parts of the world it is gradual, while in other places it appears swiftly, as described in the words of the well-known ballad, ".

Although Christian Science deals with profound basic truths relating to God and man, Spirit and matter, its teachings are not mysterious or difficult to understand. Just as the science of mathematics or the science of music has a principle and rules, so Christian Science has a divine principle and rules.