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" Knowledge is power," wrote Francis Bacon, the famous English philosopher and statesman, over three centuries ago. According to an encyclopedia, he was "the great forerunner of the modern system of scientific research.

Perhaps no word in our language is subject to a wider variety of interpretations than is the word day. Mankind evaluate it in a multiplicity of ways.

Nearly everyone is familiar with the story of Daniel and his steadfast reliance on God. Even as a youth he held alert watch over his thinking.

In the first chapter of Genesis it is written ( verse 27 ), "God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him. " This is the only man that God has created: man in the likeness of Spirit; the expression of the divine nature; the manifestation of Soul; the idea of Mind; the reflection of Life, Truth, and Love; the perfect effect of a perfect cause, sinless, birthless, ageless, deathless, pure, holy.

Three steps of right thinking whereby one can harmonize his experience through Christian Science have so blessed the writer that he desires to share the unfoldment as it appeared to him. This Science, which reveals the allness of God as one infinite Mind, proves the unreality of the temporal or mortal mind, so evident to humanity.

" Look unto me, and be ye saved, all the ends of the earth: for I am God, and there is none else. " This quotation from Isaiah (45:22) emphasizes the allness of God and promises salvation from the false beliefs of any other power, presence, or activity.

Enoch is the first individual in recorded Bible history to prove his unity with eternal Life and thus overcome the greatest fear that besets mankind. He proved to be a myth the claim of mortal mind that death is supreme or inevitable.

Christian Science makes it plain that the entire ministry of Christ Jesus is a challenge to all of his followers to strive to overcome all worldliness and evil. Does this overcoming seem an impossible task? Does the yearning for the things of the flesh appear to be unquenchable? Is the belief in the reality of substance matter too persistent for easy relinquishment? Take courage and give thanks, for we have the reassuring words of the Master ( John 16: 33 ): "These things I have spoken unto you, that in me ye might have peace.

In each of Mary Baker Eddy's divinely inspired written works are presented vast metaphysical concepts which students of Christian Science meditate upon and use for spiritual profit. On page 82 of "Miscellaneous Writings'' we read: "Man is the offspring and idea of the Supreme Being, whose law is perfect and infinite.

To know thyself is a great achievement. It is power unto salvation.