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It is related in the thirteenth chapter of Matthew's Gospel that the disciples of Jesus, no doubt studying the great Teacher's method of preaching, asked him why he spoke to them in parables. His reply ( Matt.
In "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" Mary Baker Eddy says ( p. 485 ), "Science declares that Mind, not matter, sees, hears, feels, speaks.
In the Preface to the Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," Mary Baker Eddy writes ( p. vii ), "The time for thinkers has come.
The truth as Christian Science reveals it is simple because it is pure. It is the same truth of the perfection of God and man which Christ Jesus so completely illustrated in his healing works.
In the account of Jesus' feeding of the five thousand in a desert place, as recorded in the Gospel of Mark, we read ( 6:41, 42 ), "When he had taken the five loaves and the two fishes, he looked up to heaven, and blessed, and brake the loaves, and gave them to his disciples to set before them.
According to the Holy Bible ( II cor. 4:18 ), "The things which are seen are temporal; but the things which are not seen are eternal.
In "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy we read ( p. 93 ): "Divine logic and revelation coincide.
Man lives, moves, and has his being by virtue of divine law. To become aware of the fact of the supremacy and ever-presence of spiritual law, the law of God, Life, Truth, and Love, sets one's feet on the pathway which leads to the greatest possibilities and the highest achievements.
When the disciples were on their way to Capernaum, they disputed among themselves who should be greatest (see Mark 9: 33, 34). Matthew relates that they came to Jesus asking ( 18:1 ), "Who is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven?" The account continues: "And Jesus called a little child unto him, and set him in the midst of them, and said, Verily I say unto you, Except ye be converted, and become as little children, ye shall not enter into the kingdom of heaven.
Many years ago, according to an account in the tenth chapter of Luke's Gospel, the most spiritually powerful man who ever lived, even Christ Jesus, appointed seventy of his students to go on a very important mission in preparing the way for his work in other places. He told them that they would be "as lambs among wolves," yet he gave them no material equipment wherewith to protect themselves.