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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.

When addressed as law students, the young women in a Christian Science Sunday School class stimulatingly challenged that term. They asked, "How can it apply to us; does it not require profound study of law to be designated law students?" They were reminded that among the first lessons taught in Christian Science Sunday Schools are the Ten Commandments, God's law as it appeared to Moses.

Mary Baker Eddy writes in "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" ( p. 492 ): "For right reasoning there should be but one fact before the thought, namely, spiritual existence.

In her Communion Hymn, to be found on page 75 of her book of poems, Mary Baker Eddy asks the question, "Felt ye the power of the Word?" This question is one which should be carefully considered and answered by all in the sweet secret place of communion with God. The conviction that the Word is all-powerful must eventually displace all belief in any force save that which comes from God.

There is satisfying spiritual joy which no human vicissitude can take away. The rule for experiencing this joy was set forth clearly by Christ Jesus in the words, "Judge not according to the appearance, but judge righteous judgment" ( John 7: 24 ).

Christian Science is revealing to mankind that God and His perfect spiritual creation alone are real. It explains to humanity the mythical or illusory nature of that which appears as matter, sickness, sin, inharmony, and death.

Divine Mind's expression of itself is egoism. Mortal mind's expression of itself is egotism.

To think of the mission of the Christ as having been completed within a certain period would be to lose sight of the spiritual message of the Scriptures; but to understand that the activity of the Christ is the perpetual manifestation of God, good, nullifying every form of evil, renders the Gospel narratives of practical value in daily life. Because Christ Jesus was guided by spiritual sense and recognized his oneness with God more clearly than anyone else in human history, we find in his words and works the answer to all forms of evil suggestions that seem to rob mankind of happiness today.