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Church has somewhat the same relationship to edifice that home has to house, and as the work of homemaking is continuous, so church building continues after the edifice is built and paid for. The living Church is shown forth by a church membership in which Love continues to be brought out more and more in human lives.

One of the most profound and enlightening statements made by the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, Mary Baker Eddy, is found in her work, "Retrospection and Introspection," where she says ( p. 67 ), "The first iniquitous manifestation of sin was a finity.

" Behold , I have set before thee an open door, and no man can shut it. " So writes the Revelator (3:8).

If through his faith one is not to an increasing extent finding liberation from his fears and enslaving beliefs of sin and physical infirmity, then he should frankly ask himself the question, "What is wrong with my faith?" It is related in the seventeenth chapter of the Gospel according to St. Matthew that a certain man who had a lunatic child came to Jesus and knelt before him, and in that same hour Jesus cured the boy.

Does someone desire to know the whereabouts of a loved one reported missing in action? In Isaiah (45:11) there is a statement which leaves no doubt as to where man's true position and condition are to be sought: "Ask me [God] of things to come concerning my sons. " And in "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" Mary Baker Eddy states ( p.

It is related in the fourth chapter of John's Gospel that Jesus once sat down at Jacob's well and asked for a drink from a woman of Samaria who had come there to draw water. When she demanded to know why he made this request of her, in spite of the strained relations between the Jews and the Samaritans, our Master used the occasion to awaken her thought to the higher meaning of life and refreshment.

The Bible's pervading theme is the allness of God, the fact that there is none beside Him. Jeremiah states it thus ( 23: 24 ): "Do not I fill heaven and earth? saith the Lord.

" The Scriptures are very sacred. Our aim must he to have them understood spiritually, for only by this understanding can truth he gained," declares Mary Baker Eddy on page 547 of the Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures.

The great cry of mankind is for completeness. Some feel that good health brings it.

In "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" Mary Baker Eddy writes these words, familiar to all Christian Scientists ( p. 583 ): "The Church is that institution, which affords proof of its utility and is found elevating the race, rousing the dormant understanding from material beliefs to the apprehension of spiritual ideas and the demonstration of divine Science, thereby casting out devils, or error, and healing the sick.