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Mary Baker Eddy says in "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" ( p. 525 ): "Everything good or worthy, God made.

" I Leaned on God, and was safe. " In the paragraph from which this quotation is taken (Message to The Mother Church for 1902, p.

Mary Baker Eddy states in her great textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," published seventy-five years ago ( p. 479 ), "An image of mortal thought, reflected on the retina, is all that the eye beholds.

In "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" Mary Baker Eddy defines "Church" as follows ( p. 583 ): "The structure of Truth and Love; whatever rests upon and proceeds from divine Principle.

Time is the error of age and the ages. Eternity is the forever newness of spiritual man's existence and individuality.

The meeting of Jesus and Nicodemus, the Pharisee and ruler of the Jews, carries with it a deep meaning for all time, for it establishes the scientific fact that man is born of Spirit and not of matter. Nicodemus caught a glimpse of the divine nature of Jesus' teachings, and he recognized to a degree that the miracles which Jesus performed were not done by human power.

" My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?" cried the writer of the twenty-second Psalm in words which have gained great significance to many Christians because of their utterance by the Saviour when on the cross of Calvary. The poignant prayer of the singer of Israel emerges later in the same Psalm with accents of spiritual triumph and praise.

In our times a spiritually-minded woman, Mary Baker Eddy, was guided by God to present to the world Christian Science, the promised Comforter. She gave it in a form which can be readily understood and utilized.

We hear a great deal today about civil defense and the careful thought that is being given to ways and means by which men may protect themselves and others from the destructive forces of materialism which have been unleashed by human knowledge and invention. While it is undoubtedly right that governments should seek means to safeguard their peoples from such dangers, there is only one way by which the individual can be guaranteed absolute protection and safety, and that is by his seeking refuge in the sanctuary of Spirit, God.

To become increasingly conscious of the harmony and dominion of true being is the rightful aim of every earnest student of Christian Science, and probably no Biblical statement more fitly gives the key to such spiritual experience than that of the Psalmist ( Ps. 46: 10 ), "Be still, and know that I am God.