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In her Message to The Mother Church for 1900, Mary Baker Eddy states ( p. 2 ), "The song of Christian Science is, 'Work— work—work—watch and pray.

Throughout the textbook of Christian Science, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy, we find what may be called signposts bearing unmistakable directives for leading the sincere seeker to greater heights of spiritual understanding. Not only must these signs be carefully read, but they must be followed without deviation.

God, through Christ, is continually imparting to humanity a message of love and healing. In the textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," Mary Baker Eddy writes as follows ( p.

There has probably never been so much time, thought, and money devoted to education as there is today. There has been a wide extension of educational benefits, and improved methods of teaching have been adopted in many lands.

Perhaps no spiritual fact is more generally accepted than the ever-presence of God. The very acknowledgment of a Supreme Being implies His omnipresence.

Throughout the world the divine concept of man as God's image and likeness, created free by divine right, is being aggressively challenged by those who, as yet unenlightened as to man's spiritual nature, would overthrow the foundations of Christianity and the freedom it bestows. Earnest students of Christian Science understand that today's warfare is not a conflict between nations, peoples, or races, but a struggle between the forces of righteousness and those of the so-called carnal mind.

Idealism is the tendency to idealize, or to affirm "the pre-eminent value of imagination as compared with faithful copying of nature," as a dictionary states. The individual who is known as an idealist is expecting the transformation of a given material situation into a more beautiful one to bring him complete happiness.

What consecration and humility fill the heart of the earnest Christian Scientist who is elected to the office of Reader in a Church of Christ, Scientist! Great is the longing to be faithful to that high trust, to let the Word of God go forth from the Reader's desk on its shining mission of enlightenment and healing, unimpeded by personal idiosyncrasies or deficiencies. After the election of new Readers, much well-intentioned and sometimes helpful human advice is not infrequently given them by fellow members.

It is recorded in the third chapter of the book of Exodus that Moses was a keeper of the sheep of his father-in-law and that on one occasion he had gone to the backside of the desert, even to the mountain of God, which was named Horeb. Here the angel appeared to him in a bush which burned with fire, but was not consumed.

Mary Baker Eddy gives us a definition of "Church" in "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" ( p. 583 ) which falls into two sections.