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" The Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, and we beheld his glory" ( John 1:14 ). Thus John tells us of what he knew, saw, and loved; and he presents it in his particular style, a style which is unique in its economical use of words, but which conveys the awe of the wonderful things he has to say (1:1): "In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.

In the Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," Mary Baker Eddy gives the definition of Elias ( p. 585 ): "Prophecy; spiritual evidence opposed to material sense; Christian Science, with which can be discerned the spiritual fact of whatever the material senses behold; the basis of immortality.

Purity is a quality before which mankind stand somewhat in awe because to them its unadulterated character seems unattainable. Yet purity is a quality of God, and as such must be a quality which man, God's reflection, includes.

One can identify himself or others as God's image and likeness only by accepting Christ Jesus' identification of the son of God as spiritual and immortal. By an orderly succession of demonstrations of spiritual reality, including the healing of sickness and sin, the transfiguration, resurrection, and ascension, the Master proved that the identity of the children of God is entirely separate from and higher than any beliefs of life and soul in matter.

Mary Baker Eddy has throughout her writings used the term Principle as one of the synonyms for God. To the neophyte in Christian Science this synonym may seem cold and abstract, but as one progresses Spiritward the understanding of divine Principle becomes precious to him because of what it conveys of solidity and consistency.

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.