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In the eighth chapter of John's Gospel is recorded a scene in which a number of Jesus' countrymen displayed marked hostility to his teachings. In derision they called him a Samaritan and boasted of themselves that they were of the seed of Abraham.

" So the Lord alone did lead him, and there was no strange god with him" ( Deut. 32:12 ).

In large communities much attention has been given during recent years to ways and means by which to minimize the pollution of the atmosphere. In Christian Science we learn that any harmful or disagreeable atmosphere can be eliminated through Christianly scientific measures.

Great fortunes have been spent in the setting up of laboratories, clinics, and foundations bent on searching out the causes of humanity's countless ills; and elaborate remedial measures have been developed for coping with the ills themselves. Nevertheless, a system which commences with material effects, such as atoms, germs, diseases, poverty, unemployment, war, and from these effects attempts to work back to causes, will ever prove futile.

In divine Science progress is the unfoldment of the ideas of divine Mind; it is therefore both spiritual and eternal. Progress, then, can never be measured in terms of materiality.

Except for the self-oblivious love of, Mary Baker Eddy and her undauntable trust in God, followed by the Godreliant faith of a small number of her early students, there would not now be the farflung movement of Truth, the evangelizing, healing activity of Christian Science. Some who heard Mrs.

One July afternoon, as the writer and her family drove along a western desert highway, their attention was drawn to the behavior of a blackbird in the road a short distance ahead. Its wings were stiffly downspread, and the bird wobbled in a diminishing circle.

A Deeper understanding of the word I leads to a higher comprehension of God as infinite consciousness, or Mind, and of one's own real identity as Mind's reflection. On page 588 of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" Mary Baker Eddy gives the definition of "I, or Ego," which reads in part: "Divine Principle; Spirit; Soul; incorporeal, unerring, immortal, and eternal Mind.

God , good, is the cause and origin of all that really exists; therefore we cannot believe evil to be present and good absent. So-called mortal mind would have us believe that evil is governing the human relationships among families, friends, and nations.

The disciples had asked Christ Jesus to teach them how to pray. He answered their plea by giving to them and to all mankind in all time to come that prayer which has become universally known in Christendom as the Lord's Prayer.