Articles

Joy is a spiritual quality. It is, therefore, the eternal possession of man made in the image and likeness of God, Spirit.

In the Scriptures we read ( Ps. 118: 17 ), "I shall not die, but live, and declare the works of the Lord.

Peace is a positive quality of the real man's being; it is an essential element of that kingdom of heaven which is within man, and as such it is perpetual and permanent. Yet peace seems to escape humanity and to hover as a beautiful mirage that is intangible.

Mary Baker Eddy has given to the world the complete and final revelation of man in his true being, as the son of God. In her textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," which is based solely upon the Bible, man is revealed as the image and likeness of God, wholly spiritual, forever perfect, sustained and eternally governed by Him.

The mythology of ancient Rome and Greece seems far removed from the religion of enlightened people of today, but are we sure that it is entirely foreign to our accepted modes of thinking? Mythology identified concepts and qualities as men-made gods which were supposed to embody or control human experience; and men were thought to be influenced by these gods, which they had created in their own thought and then feared or revered. We may well ask ourselves if we are attributing power or reality to false concepts of God and of His manifestation, man.

Mary Baker Eddy writes in "Rudimental Divine Science" ( p. 9 ), "The spiritual power of a scientific, right thought, without a direct effort, an audible or even a mental argument, has oftentimes healed inveterate diseases.

" This is the happiest day of m whole life. " Surprised to find that this statement was being addressed to her, a businesswoman who was hurrying along a crowded city street, on her way home after a very full day at the office, turned and looked down into the radiant face of a child of about eight years.

We worship a God of beauty and perfection. We adore Him as omnipresent Love and bow down to Him as omnipotent Principle.

The writer once heard a student of Christian Science casually say to her daughter, "Whenever you are faced with a problem, the first thing to do is to ask yourself, 'Is this the truth?'" Later the daughter confided that her mother had lovingly attributed to her a state of consciousness which she had not yet attained, but that the remark had awakened in her a desire to hold more steadfastly to the truth at all times. In her Message to The Mother Church for 1902 Mary Baker Eddy writes ( p.

Confronted on the one hand by the Red Sea, on the other by the Egyptian chariots and horsemen in close pursuit, and with his own followers on the verge of panic, Moses made this remarkable declaration ( Ex. 14:13 ): "Fear ye not, stand still, and see the salvation of the Lord, which he will shew to you to day.