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Our loving Father-Mother God gives to His children health, abundance, happiness. And is it not the purpose of all of us to attain these objectives? Christian Science shows us how to use the power of God to bring them into our lives.

Three times in his epistles Paul speaks of the Christian's armor. He speaks of it to the Romans, to the Corinthians, and to the Ephesians.

When Christ Jesus declared ( Luke 17:21 ), "The kingdom of God is within you," he was showing his complete understanding of the fact that life, or being, is subjective, that consciousness is one and all-inclusive. Humanity in general has failed to understand and appreciate what the Master was explaining in his inspired exposition of being.

There is no stubborn belief, no problem too difficult, to bring to a right solution. Such statements without a basis of proof would be mere empty words, but in the light of Christian Science they are capable of demonstration.

" Behold , I send an Angel before thee, to keep thee in the way, and to bring thee into the place which I have prepared" ( Ex. 23:20 ).

" Science is divine: it is neither of human origin nor of human direction. That which is termed 'natural science,' the evidences whereof are taken in by the five-personal senses, presents but a finite, feeble sense of the infinite law of God; which law is written on the heart, received through the affections, spiritually understood, and demonstrated in our lives.

" Moral courage is 'the lion of the tribe of Juda,' the king of the mental realm," says Mary Baker Eddy in "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" ( p. 514 ).

Christian Science offers to mankind the promise and the proof of heaven. After an instantaneous healing the writer was quick to grasp something of the fundamental truth of a universe wholly good and harmonious, and he began happily to identify himself as man in the image and likeness of the perfect creator, God.

The term ghost is commonly associated with childish fear of imaginary specters. Mary Baker Eddy refers to this in her textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," but her discerning thought also enlarges this characterization by disclosing ghosts to be any unreal belief which claims to haunt either childish or adult thought through suggestions of sin, fear, disease, limitation, uncertainty, disability, and so forth.

From time immemorial mortals have in one form or another prayed to a deity, and their concept of prayer has been in line with their concept of God. If their prayers were directed either to a pagan idol or to a humanly personified or anthropomorphic God, they were, of course, without results.