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Mary Baker Eddy was always deeply religious. In her young womanhood she sought the solution for humanity's difficulties in the church, but found some of its doctrinal beliefs stereotyped and limiting, condemning and confusing, rather than helpful and saving.

Christ Jesus was the greatest enunciator and demonstrator of spiritual truth. His achievements in this field are unequaled; nor is his work to be compared with that of any other individual, except as one may be in agreement with the other.

Truth is changeless, eternal reality. Christian Science shows its students how to discern the truth, enables them to behold the truth in contradistinction to error, reminds them to speak the truth, and requires them to live what they perceive of it.

The fact that God, good, is omnipresent signifies that His qualities are ever present. Christian Science teaches that since God is Spirit and His creation, man, is His own reflection, His image and likeness, all that is unlike God—materiality, lack, sin, sickness, death, and all evil—is actually illusive and unreal.

In what she calls the platform of Christian Science Mary Baker Eddy states (Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, p. 336 ): "God, the divine Principle of man, and man in God's likeness are inseparable, harmonious, and eternal.

With what joy and assurance the Psalmist sang ( Ps. 118:28 ), "Thou art my God, and I will praise thee: thou art my God, I will exalt thee"! The Psalmist must have had a ripened understanding of God and of his own relationship to Him to be able to recognize that God truly was his God and that he was blessed by this great truth.

RIGHT reasoning, resulting from the spiritual understanding of divine logic, is essential in demonstrating the healing power of Christian Science. The difference between reasoning based upon true logic —Jesus' theology, which Christian Science teaches—and the false reasoning of the senses is that right reasoning promotes spiritual understanding and therefore, logically, dishonors human belief.

One of the three quotations from "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy that are seen on the walls of Christian Science churches is ( p. 494 ), "Divine Love always has met and always will meet every human need.

In his richly instructive messages to the church in Corinth the Apostle Paul endeavors to lift the thoughts and lives of those early Christians to a higher spiritual level. After pointing out in vivid analogy the need for each of the various kinds of workers and their dependence on one another, he encourages them all to seek the highest spiritual talents.

Two friends walking on the beach were discussing Christian Science. As they talked, a mighty wave broke with great force on the rocks, shaking the earth around them.