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Every alert student of Christian Science acknowledges the importance of the Church Manual, the compilation of By-Laws written and prepared by Mary Baker Eddy for the guidance of her Church, The First Church of Christ, Scientist, in Boston, Massachusetts, known to Christian Scientists by the endearing term The Mother Church. Well may the student ask himself the questions, "What is the purpose of the Manual?" and.

Every Christian Scientist realizes the necessity of impersonalizing evil. In applying the healing power of his religion, he adheres strictly to the rule of divine Love, which uncovers and destroys error, but never condemns persons.

There is a sentence on page 7 of "Unity of Good" by Mary Baker Eddy which has inspired and encouraged many a student of Christian Science. There she speaks of her conviction "that an acknowledgment of the perfection of the infinite Unseen confers a power nothing else can.

Come to the feast of love, come ever knowing, Earth has no sorrow but Love can remove. These words might well have been written in invitation to a Christian Science lecture, for surely such a lecture is a "feast of love," expounding the truth of God and man that removes not only sorrow, but all discord and disease as well.

Everyone is seeking dominion in some form or other, anxious to find release from pain and sorrow, liberty from subservience to drugs and medicine, or freedom from worry and limitation. Christian Science, with its teaching of the omnipotence, omnipresence, and perfection of God and of man's God-given dominion, brings release from the domination of the so-called carnal mind and all the enslaving beliefs of sin, sickness, and fear.

" Christian Scientists, " writes Mary Baker Eddy in "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" ( p. 451 ), "must live under the constant pressure of the apostolic command to come out from the material world and be separate.

David's inspired advice to his son Solomon may well have a message for us today. "Know thou the God of thy father," he said ( I Chron.

To one who has looked up at the stars on a clear night it may have seemed that he was looking into the infinite. However, the writer recalls his college algebra teacher describing the symbol which designates infinity in mathematics and remembers how even this fine individual, unacquainted with Christian Science, stated that the human mind was unable to grasp what the symbol expressed.

In her Message to The Mother Church for 1901, Mary Baker Eddy writes ( p. 31 ), "Among the list of blessings infinite I count these dear: Devout orthodox parents; my early culture in the Congregational Church; the daily Bible reading and family prayer; my cradle hymn and the Lord's Prayer, repeated at night; my early association with distinguished Christian clergymen, who held fast to whatever is good, used faithfully God's Word, and yielded up graciously what He took away.

That there were to be two witnesses for the supremacy and allness of God, good, was foreseen and foretold by the prophet Zechariah. He tells of a vision in which he saw a golden candlestick with seven lamps, and two olive trees by it, from which oil flowed to the candlestick.