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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.

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.