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Throughout the years, with varying intensity, men have voiced the question, "Where is God?" and particularly when they have been confronted by some distress that human efforts have been unable to alleviate. They have sought Him through paths of dogma and down blind alleys of specious reasoning, but often the search has been motivated by a desire to localize the infinite, to humanize the divine; and therefore it has been, in the main, unsuccessful.

In Christian Science, church building is a continuous spiritual activity. With her discovery of the Science of being, Mary Baker Eddy was led to see the need of an organization by means of which to bring Christ, Truth, to the world.

Mary Baker Eddy was never in any doubt as to the value of her unique gift to humanity. As Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, she could view with childlike wonder the magnitude of her lifework and rest serene in the consciousness that God alone had enabled her to accomplish it.

Many years ago a small family came in sub-zero weather to occupy a primitive cabin on a northern wilderness frontier. Because they lacked experience, the fire in their rude fireplace burned out during the first night, posing a problem.

How often a verse from the Bible will open up a wide field of study filled with inspiration and practical value. An example is found in Hebrews, where we read of Moses ( 11:27 ), "By faith he forsook Egypt, not fearing the wrath of the king: for he endured, as seeing him who is invisible.

Our international daily newspaper, The Christian Science Monitor, is an important instrument for good in the world. It needs to be circulated and read more generally and to be better understood even by those who do subscribe for and read it.

The truths gleaned from the Bible and from the writings of Mary Baker Eddy help us in storm and calm, in defeat and victory, in moments of doubt and darkness, and in days of assurance and sunlight. They must be ever active in our consciousness if we would safeguard our mental homes from the encroaching suggestions of mortal mind.

Christianity , as originally taught and demonstrated by Jesus, has been designated by Mary Baker Eddy as the religion of Love. In her writings she explains the nature of pure love and shows that Jesus' teachings on this subject referred to no sentimentalism or worldly affections, nor were they merely a pleasant philosophy or a formulated creed.

Our great Leader, Mary Baker Eddy, constantly listened for the still small voice of Truth, and when this voice told her to establish Christian Science lectures, she recognized the message as emanating from God, infinite Mind. Whatever emanates from Mind has a spiritual origin; it is clothed with inspiration and power and operates under Mind's directing.

From the moment one begins the study of Christian Science it is his privilege to prove the truths taught in the textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy. That our Leader was divinely inspired in her discovery of Christian Science cannot be doubted by anyone who has proved in his own experience the truth of a single proposition of this scientific religion.