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To the agriculturist, often harassed by spurious laws concerning soil, weather, and pest invasion, Christian Science brings the revealment that true propagation is not a process of material reproduction, but is the forever appearing of God's creation through His ideas. The unceasing expression or reflection of God's being constitutes His multifarious creation, man and the universe.

In his faultless individual life and unprecedented proof of man's immortality and in his healing of the multitudes and fulfilling of his mission Christ Jesus marked the way of redemption from the perils of material existence for all mankind. Speaking the divine Word through his pure spiritual understanding, derived directly from God, he declared ( John 14:6 ), "I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.

When "a certain scribe came, and said unto him, Master, I will follow thee whithersoever thou goest" ( Matt. 8: 19 ), Jesus answered, "The foxes have holes, and the birds of the air have nests; but the Son of man hath not where to lay his head.

Commenting on the rapid growth of Christian Science, a newspaper in Rochester, New York, once said of the followers of this religion (The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and Miscellany by Mary Baker Eddy, p. 93 ), "They are multiplying without efforts at proselytizing.

Mary Baker Eddy has made this thought-rousing statement in her textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" ( p. 571 ): "Know thyself, and God will supply the wisdom and the occasion for a victory over evil.

A Friend of the writer's, a student of Christian Science, who had been using and proving his new-found understanding of God, divine Principle, in his own experience for a number of years, decided that the time had come for him to identify himself publicly with the practice of Christian Science, and so he made application for a listing in The Christian Science Journal and took such additional action as seemed appropriate. Writing to his friend and teacher in Christian Science, who was one of the pioneers in our movement, the student informed him of the step which he had taken.

As an understanding of Christian Science is obtained, any follower of its teachings comes to regard substance very differently from the way he did before. In "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" Mary Baker Eddy writes ( pp.

Recently the writer came across statistics which indicate that communicative diseases have greatly diminished in recent years but that degenerative diseases, such as arthritis, heart disease, and so on, have increased. From the standpoint of Christian Science, which teaches that God is good and infinite and that all that He creates is also good, disease has no scientific foundation, but is simply an erroneous belief, a misconception of mortal mind.

There is perhaps no greater challenge to mankind and to the individual Christian Scientist than that of gaining a deeper and more practical understanding of divine Love. For there is no problem—economic, social, religious, political, or physical—that can prevail in the presence of Love understood and demonstrated.

Christianity affords instruction and enlightenment in the practice of self-defense. This is of great value to everyone who at some time, in some way, has especial occasion to protect himself; and indeed is there anyone who does not have this necessity? At one time it may be the need to defend oneself against sickness, at another time against sin, at another time against some phase of injustice, at still another time the need may be to share in the defense of one's nation against attack or threatened attack.