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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.

Centuries ago, when Jesus healed and taught the gospel of the saving Christ, people were attracted to him from many backgrounds and for many reasons. A ruler of the synagogue and Mary Magdalene both sought him out.

Simplicity marks the teachings of Christian Science and, increasingly, the highest and best of material theories evolved through the intellectual wrestlings of the world's scientific thinkers. Of the deductions of the latter it is safe to say in the words of the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, Mary Baker Eddy, in "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" ( p.

It is recorded in the Scriptures that once, as Jesus was journeying from place to place on his merciful ministry of healing and salvation, a certain ruler of the synagogue, Jairus, came to him and, kneeling in humility before him, implored him to come and heal his little daughter, who lay at home at the point of death. Lovingly Jesus started out with him.

The Christ, God's true idea, supplies a recompense for all human suffering, injustice, persecution, and trouble by revealing the truth of being, which heals mind and body. Full compensation for discord is to be found in the regeneration and restoration which are brought about by the understanding of God and man in Christian Science.

All that really exists is God and His perfect, infinite spiritual creation. Our revered Leader, Mary Baker Eddy, in a very-brief dynamic statement in "The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and Miscellany" says ( p.

In the Bible we read ( Gen. 1:27 ), "So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him.

Christian peoples turn in world crises to the power of prayer. They depend in their Christian teaching upon God, the creator of man and the universe, to help mankind in their hour of trouble.