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St. John , who was a close follower of the Master and is known as the beloved disciple, stated plainly, "God is love" ( I John 4:16 ).

" There was a little city, and few men within it; and there came a great king against it, and besieged it, and built great bulwarks against it: now there was found in it a poor wise man, and he by his wisdom delivered the city. " So we read in Ecclesiastes ( 9:14, 15 ).

In Psalms ( 119:18 ) we have a noteworthy prayer: "Open thou mine eyes, that I may behold wondrous things out of thy law. " This prayer met with a ready response in the heart of Mary Baker Eddy, the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science.

High up on the foremast of most ships, near the masthead, is the crow's-nest, where the lookout is stationed. It is the duty of the lookout to scan the horizon for whatever may appear as help or hazard to navigation.

While the oneness of Deity was the very foundation of Mosaic law, the all-goodness of infinite God and the oneness of infinite good were revealed by Christ Jesus. "Why callest thou me good?" he asked a certain ruler, adding, "None is good, save one, that is, God" ( Luke 18:19 ).

A Practical approach to the problem of church building is always needed, but this does not mean a materialistic approach. Realism in Christian Science is spiritual, and a practical understanding of church building is one which follows the injunction of Jesus ( Matt.

" At midnight Paul and Silas [in prison] prayed, and sang praises unto God: .

As we study the Bible we cannot fail to be impressed by the frequency with which "the law" is mentioned as associated with God. In the early history of Israel some Soul-inspired prophets in moments of spiritual perception grasped the fact that real law is a divine concept of perfection, governing and sustaining man, and they proved their understanding of and obedience to it by the performance of marvelous demonstrations of the power of Spirit to heal human conditions of lack, disease, and death.

At a Wednesday evening testimony meeting in a branch Church of Christ, Scientist, a testifier was heard to say, "If God has not spoken, nothing has been said. " One listener pondered these words and realized how true it is that the truths of God and His spiritual creation, spoken either audibly or mentally, render anything else of no account.

Christ Jesus healed the sick and raised the dead. To accept the New Testament as evidence of the existence of Jesus but to deny the evidence of his works is contrary to logic and reason.