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In the Gospel of Matthew (4:23) it is recorded that "Jesus went about all Galilee, teaching in their synagogues, and preaching the gospel of the kingdom, and healing all manner of sickness and all manner of disease among the people. " Jesus never resorted to material medicines or methods for healing and made no concessions to persons or opinions.

" Invite all cordially and freely to this A banquet of Christian Science, this feast and flow of Soul. " Thus Mary Baker Eddy delightfully characterizes the Christian Science testimony meeting in a letter of instruction sent to The Mother Church, The First Church of Christ, Scientist, in Boston, Massachusetts.

Often in Wednesday testimony meetings held in Christian Science churches one hears expressions of gratitude for a severe testing time, and the individual who is young in the study of Christian Science may wonder why one would rejoice over affliction. But the older student knows that seemingly difficult experiences, rightly viewed, carry the reward of a growing spiritual understanding that ultimates in victory over the claims of matter.

Mary Baker Eddy's love for the Bible, her reliance on it as her only authority and her only textbook in revealing to mankind the Science of Christianity, is indeed an inspiration to all who take up the study of Christian Science. Throughout her writings, including her beautiful messages to The Mother Church, The First Church of Christ, Scientist, in Boston, Massachusetts, she uses numerous quotations from the Bible to enrich and strengthen her teachings.

Men everywhere are seeking and longing for peace. The world is torn and rent with disaster, with beliefs of lack, doubt, distrust, fear, uncertainty, hatred, dissension, and greed.

Mary Baker Eddy perceived that God, Love, is the Principle of all real being and that He works according to invariable law. Because His law is invariable we may apply Christian Science safely and successfully in every situation, whether it be one involving health, disturbed economic conditions, or some other difficulty.

No one with compassion in His heart will belittle the struggles that mankind must face before all disease and distress is routed out of human experience. Sympathy and encouragement are needed wherever we turn.

Divine Principle, infinite Love, is constantly saying: "I am All-in-all, the one Being, the only consciousness, the source of all identity. The spiritual idea and I are inseparable.

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.