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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.

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.