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What and where is the kingdom of heaven, that we may seek and truly find it? Christ Jesus answered this question for all mankind. He said ( Luke 17: 20, 21 ), "The kingdom of God cometh not with observation: neither shall they say, Lo here! or, lo there! for, behold, the kingdom of God is within you.

In the closing days of his career our blessed Master gave his disciples some of the most important of all his teachings. From the fourteenth through the seventeenth chapters of John's Gospel we find words of admonition by Christ Jesus to his chosen few, as well as prayers that they might see the light of Truth as he had seen it.

Christian Science is the most practical religion that has appeared in the world since the days of the Master. That may seem at first to be a very broad statement.

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.