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It is related that when the beloved John returned to Ephesus from his exile on the island of Patmos, the early Christians gathered round him constantly, urging him to tell them of the Master's teachings. And he would repeat these words, which he attributed to the Master: "Little children, love one another.

Our revered Leader, Mary Baker Eddy, states in the textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" ( p. 242 ), "Self-love is more opaque than a solid body.

" Who then," asked David, "is willing to consecrate his service this day unto the Lord?" ( I Chron. 29:5.

In "Miscellaneous Writings" Mary Baker Eddy ( p. 264 ): "Unity is the essential nature of Christian Science.

Jesus ' parable of the talents points to a fact in Christian Science which greatly blesses those who give proper heed to it. It is this: that every department of our experience, as it now seems humanly to be, is capable of improvement by means wide open to us through this Science.

It is often said that in the affairs of the world no one is indispensable. And from the human viewpoint this appears to be true.

In her poem "Christ and Christmas" Mary Baker Eddy has this verse (p. 159): "As in blest Palestine's hour, So in our age, 'T is the same hand unfolds His power, And writes the page.

A Family of Christian Scientists live at a busy intersection. The street in front of the house is wide and well paved, and it has gradually become a main thoroughfare.

" The prayer that reforms the sinner and heals the sick is an absolute faith that all things are possible to God,—a spiritual understanding of Him, an unselfed love. " This sentence opens the most unique chapter on prayer ever written and is found in the Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy.

In "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," Mary Baker Eddy says ( p. 258 ),"God expresses in man the infinite idea forever developing itself, broadening and rising higher and higher from a boundless basis.