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Christian Science is a final and complete revelation, not because it has been proclaimed so by some person or persons, but because of the living evidence of completeness and infinite possibilities inseparable from the revelation itself. Its teachings are based on the Bible and set forth in the writings of Mary Baker Eddy, the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science.

Every day the loyal Christian Scientist prays to obey the By-Law given in the Manual of The Mother Church by Mary Baker Eddy which reads ( Art. VIII, Sect.

After her discovery of Christian Science, Mary Baker Eddy selected only those means for its expansion which were directed by divine Mind. There was spiritual import in every step she took.

When the liberating influence of the Christ loosens the fetters of false ideologies and scholasticism, we rise into the awareness of true, spiritual being. We soar above earth beliefs, above the petty prejudices, fears, superstitions, and hates of material sense.

Christ Jesus brought to the world the glorious revelation of the fatherhood of God, thus showing the tender relationship of God to man. The fact of man's sonship with God as the perfect reflection of the perfect Father was the basis of Jesus' mighty works of healing the sick and sinful and raising the dead.

Christian Scientists glorify God when they give testimonies of healing at the regular Wednesday meetings held by Christian Science churches and societies. That certainly is not the only way they may offer praise to divine Love, but it is one positive and indispensable way.

" Is not sight a faculty of the all-seeing Mind?" The writer well remembers the startling clearness with which this vital question penetrated a somewhat darkened consciousness. The results were inspiring and uplifting, bringing into her experience a renewal of vision and freedom from mesmeric thralldom which threatened serious impairment of sight.

In this age of atomic research, in which mankind are being taught to take a radically new view of matter and are alarmed by what they are learning, there is no more arresting question than one posed by Mary Baker Eddy, the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science. In fact, she evidently attributed such importance to the question that she included it in one of the subjects of the periodically recurring Lesson-Sermons in the Christian Science Quarterly, as if she had envisaged that the world would be called upon to face and ponder this subject in the not too distant future.

A Student of Christian Science who was soberly studying the Bible and the writings of Mary Baker Eddy was one day given the loving reminder by his teacher not only to do his metaphysical work regularly and earnestly, but to "have a good time doing it. " This unusual advice awakened him at once to the realization of how necessary is the right attitude in the study of Christian Science.

The principle of mathematics, when correctly applied, will always ensure the right solution of every mathematical problem. Just as surely in the Science of metaphysics, when we correctly apply the truths revealed to the world by the beloved Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, Mary Baker Eddy, the right answer to every problem will be found always at hand.