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When an edifice of a Church of Christ, Scientist, is built in a community it offers its members a wonderful opportunity for growth. In the Manual of The Mother Church by Mary Baker Eddy we find these arresting words ( p.

Students of Christian Science are learning to enjoy more and more of the fruits of disciplined thinking manifested in health, congenial activity, and ample supply, in harmonious relations with others, and in the "peace of God, which passeth all understanding" ( Phil. 4:7 ).

" If we look to the body for pleasure, we find pain; for Life, we find death; for Truth, we find error; for Spirit, we find its opposite, matter," writes Mary Baker Eddy on pages 260 and 261 of the Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures. " Who that has experienced many of the discords of the flesh would deny the truth of this statement? The physical senses affirm this testimony and mesmerically insist that in the physical body is precisely where the difficulty exists.

" The Christian Scientist is alone with his own being and with the reality of things. " So writes Mary Baker Eddy on page 20 of her Message to The Mother Church for 1901.

The renowned physicist, Dr. Albert Einstein, has proclaimed that time is the fourth dimension.

Almost as if spoken, the words from the Bible ( Gen. 1:1 ), "In the beginning God," came to the writer as she stood at the rim of the Grand Canyon in Arizona watching the floodlight of dawn unveil a drama of color and space.

Which shall it be for me, true worship or idolatry? Each individual makes his own choice. No one can decide for another.

The word realistic is a current favorite among journalists and public speakers. It is rare, indeed, for any of us to go through a day's experience without repeated admonitions to be realistic; and measures of general interest, like laws and treaties, have come to be judged, in large part at least, on the basis of whether they have or have not been realistically conceived.

Isaiah indicated a way of solving one's problems. He said ( 12:3 ), "Therefore with joy shall ye draw water out of the wells of salvation.

The Christian Scientist is engaged in gaining an ever clearer understanding of what constitutes his true being from the standpoint of spiritual truth. Early in his study of the Scriptures and of the Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy, he achieves a constantly growing understanding of God's allness.