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Many times, while on a tour of naval duty during World War II, the writer was prompted to feel gratitude for the memorable way in which Mary Baker Eddy phrased the truths recorded in the Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures. " Lonely night watches at sea became enriching instead of fearful experiences in proportion as he gave himself to a contemplation of the truth that God and man are inseparable, as taught in Science and Health.

Divine Love encompasses the universe. God, or infinite Spirit, blesses its perfect idea, man, endowing him by reflection with Love's own qualities, and man cannot fail to express these joyously and abundantly.

" Prayer will be inaudible, and works more than words, as we understand God better. " Mary Baker Eddy makes this perceptive declaration regarding prayer on page 15 of her cogent sermon "Christian Healing.

In his epistle to the Colossians Paul makes this statement ( 2:10 ): "Ye are complete in him, which is the head of all principality and power. " This is the statement of a scientific fact, a truth to be demonstrated in individual experience.

Spiritual intuitions are the gracious means whereby divine Love reaches the human consciousness and influences it for good. They always bless and never harm the recipient.

Indicative of the alliance existing between the quality of stillness and the divine nature are Mary Baker Eddy's words in "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" ( p. 559 ): "The 'still, small voice' of scientific thought reaches over continent and ocean to the globe's remotest bound.

" Thus saith the Lord, the Holy One of Israel, and his Maker, Ask me of things to come concerning my sons, and concerning the work of my hands command ye me" ( Isa. 45: 11 ).

Christian Science reveals the allness of the one living God. It reveals God to humanity as infinite Truth, the universal cause and Principle of all being, which creates and constitutes all that exists.

Our beloved Leader, Mary Baker Eddy, must have been impressed by the famous painting by Edwin Long entitled "Diana or Christ?" for two large reproductions of this picture were hung on the walls of her home at Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts. The scene depicts a Christian maiden of the early Christian era being urged by her pagan lover to sprinkle incense on the altar of Diana in token of submission to that goddess and denial of her Christian faith.

It is understood that any article having God for its theme can give but mere glimpses of so vast a subject. One of the purposes of such a writing is to inspire the reader to further study and meditation upon some of the points presented.