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In "Unity of Good" Mary Baker Eddy makes this interesting statement ( p. 46 ): "We do not see much of the real man here, for he is God's man; while ours is man's man.

" Blessed is the man whom thou choosest, and causest to approach unto thee, that he may dwell in thy courts.

Paul's statement ( I Cor. 3:6 ), "I have planted.

" The two largest words in the vocabulary of thought are 'Christian' and 'Science. ' The former is the highest style of man; the latter reveals and interprets God and man; it aggregates, amplifies, unfolds, and expresses the All-God.

Moses , the great Hebrew Lawgiver, was aware that error would probably attempt to absorb the seekers after the one God in the heathen nation with which they were to dwell. Realizing the distinction which must be made between spiritual worship and material idolatry, he told the children of Israel ( Deut.

In Christian Science we learn the wisdom of positive action against error. Humanity seems to be confronted with myriad discordant conditions.

To this age the second coming of Christ has appeared to human consciousness as the Comforter, which Jesus foretold would come and "teach you all things, and bring all things to your remembrance, whatsoever I have said unto you" ( John 14:26 ). The revelation of Christian Science by Mary Baker Eddy has brought to the apprehension of all mankind the spiritual interpretation of the Holy Scriptures through which everyone, from the least even unto the greatest, may understand and demonstrate practical Christianity and its healing art as practiced in the time of Christ Jesus.

Christ Jesus taught his followers many things about the kingdom of heaven; in fact, he made plain that his main purpose was to reveal the accessibility of his Father's realm. In one instance, when asked In the Pharisees when this kingdom would become visible, he replied ( Luke 17:20,21 ).

Is someone believing that something necessary for his happiness and well-being has been lost far beyond the possibility of retrievement? Or is he accepting the belief that he is being victimized by some inexorable lack? He no longer need be mesmerized by these arguments of mortal mind, but can return to his Father's house, the Christ-consciousness, and find what has in reality never been lost. He can accept the glorious imitation with its promise as given by Christ Jesus ( Matt.

Recently , during a radio program in the United States aimed to recruit enlistments for a local unit of the National Guard, the announcer spoke of the famed minutemen of pre-Revolutionary and Revolutionary days. He related that these valiant armed citizens when reporting for duty responded to roll call with the alert answer.