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Jesus once asked ( Matt. 12:48 ).

Many readers of The Christian Science Monitor are deeply impressed by the way the mission of the textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy, is bring made known through advertisements appearing on The Home Forum page. They set forth different aspects of its purpose helpfully and healingly.

In John we read ( 13:3,5 ), "Jesus knowing that the Father had given all things into his hands, and that he was come from God, and went to God.

The story of Elisha and the Shunammite woman in the fourth chapter of II Kings has inspired mankind through the centuries and taught in a graphic manner the value of unwavering faith in God, infinite good. It will he remembered that this Shunammite had a child who became ill and to all appearances passed on.

Most of us in childhood were told to be on our best behavior when we went visiting or when company was expected in the home. This meant that we must be quiet, orderly, courteous, and conservative in speech and general demeanor.

How wonderful to know that man reflects God and that God expresses Himself through man! And how wonderful that through Christian Science one can begin to prove that whatever is un-Godlike, and does not represent God, is untrue. Our beloved Leader, Mary Baker Eddy, says (Miscellaneous Writings, p.

" The standard of perfection was originally God and man. " This profound statement made by Mary Baker Eddy is found in her textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" ( p.

The great value of Christian Science rests in its effects on human consciousness. It is the leaven which not only heals physical discords, but also establishes harmony and right activity in all fields of human endeavor.

God, our heavenly Father, forms the character and determines the course of action of His children. He lovingly demands obedience to divine requirements as the natural fulfillment of law and order.

" In the way of righteousness is life; and in the pathway thereof there is no death," we read in Proverbs ( 12:28 ). Since God is All-in-all and man is His image and likeness, as Christian Science teaches, the way of righteousness which leads to Life is found to be a conscious acceptance of man's perpetual unity with God, his divine Principle, wherein man expresses all that God is.