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It is significant that the word wealth originally signified welfare, well-being, and even happiness. Through the discovery of Christian Science by Mary Baker Eddy a wholly spiritual approach has been found to the question of how to demonstrate true wealth.

As the time approaches for the election of Readers in branch Churches of Christ, Scientist, members are called upon to do prayerful and consecrated metaphysical work. Alert students will have their lamp of spiritual discernment filled with the oil of heavenly inspiration.

" God is the Principle of man, and man is the idea of God," writes Mary Baker Eddy on page 476 of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures. " Mrs.

The first tenet of Christian Science is given in "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy as follows ( p. 497 ): "As adherents of Truth, we take the inspired Word of the Bible as our sufficient guide to eternal Life.

The question of time and timing attracts a great deal of attention in human experience; and properly so, since human things need to be done in reasonable order and sequence. Considered scientifically, however, this subject opens up much more than is at first apparent, because Science brings forth the underlying fact that God, divine Spirit, creates and governs man, including the universe, according to His own Mind, which is sinless, harmonious, perfect, and eternal.

Can God and His Christ be first in the affections of men while hope of security is placed in the inventions of men? Has matter within itself any life-giving or life-saving properties? Today material science faithfully pursues its unprecedented effort to find within its realm devices offering some legitimate assurance of security. There is, however, growing awareness of the fact that all such inventions must of necessity reflect the limitations of the human mind.

Christian Scientists deeply appreciate Mary Baker Eddy's definition of "Church" in "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," which reads in part ( p. 583 ), "The structure of Truth and Love; whatever rests upon and proceeds from divine Principle.

Just prior to Thanksgiving Day the writer's husband with two friends went on a short cruise to some nearby islands in his thirty-foot cabin cruiser. Although the writer had been invited to go along, her desire to attend the Thanksgiving Day service in a Church of Christ, Scientist, was greater than her desire to go on the pleasure cruise; so she had declined the invitation.

Recently, in commenting on present-day efforts to curb gambling, a supposedly intelligent individual said to the writer: "I cannot see why people should be so concerned about the matter. The tendency to gamble is in the thought of most everybody.

Whether people take up the study of Christian Science for healing, for comfort, or in their quest for truth, they generally become interested in it for its religious teaching and the spiritual uplift it gives; and they seek to understand it better in order to apply it themselves to daily problems. As they become convinced that it is indeed the Science of Life, they wish to share it with others; and later they have the desire to become members of a Church of Christ, Scientist, and thus aid in furthering its beneficent work.