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In her autobiography, "Retrospection and Introspection," Mary Baker Eddy writes ( pp. 90.

Mary Baker Eddy , the most intrepid of leaders and the deliverer of mankind in our time, says to us in "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" ( p. 419 ), "Meet every adverse circumstance as its master.

The popular belief that death is the means of being translated to an ideal state of existence called heaven needs to be corrected. No material condition or place, here or hereafter, no matter how relatively pleasant it may be, can produce or impart substantive happiness, or bliss, because this quality inheres in God, Spirit, and in His perfect spiritual reflection, man.

In her book "Miscellaneous Writings" ( p. 339 ) Mary Baker Eddy asks, "Hast thou a friend, and forgettest to be grateful?" The word friend derives from an Anglo-Saxon word meaning to love; so it is natural that friendship should signify affection.

It is made plain in Christian Science, to the joy and great assistance of those who understand it, that any unsatisfactory condition is simply a false and illusory mental concept—a failure, in belief, to recognize the allness of good, or God, and the actual nature of man and the universe as His expression. It follows that the correction and disposal of unsatisfactory conditions comes through true enlightenment in accordance with Christ Jesus' statement ( John 8:32 ), "Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.

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 ).