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In one of his parables, recorded in the fifteenth chapter of Luke, Jesus tells of a younger son who demanded his share of the patrimony and left his father's home to go to a far country. There he "wasted his substance with riotous living," and eventually returned impoverished.

Questions as to the why or wherefore of the seeming presence of evil never occur to one who has learned in Christian Science that God created all, including man in His own likeness—created all good and perfect in accordance with His own nature. As the student of Christian Science lifts his thought above a false material sense of existence to spiritual realization of the omnipotence and omnipresence of God divine Mind, reigning eternally in ceaseless harmony, he sees as invalid any reason for the presence of even a claim of error.

The belief that someone has treated us unjustly, or wronged us, can cause much unhappiness until we learn in Christian Science to reverse this error with the truth of being and so eliminate hurt feelings from our experience. We may long to forgive the erring one and love him, but believe it humanly impossible.

A Christian Science treatment is a very natural thing, as natural as correcting a mistake in arithmetic. It is the use of the power of Truth to correct a condition that is not true.

Demonstration is a word that quickens the attention and hope of those beginning the study of Christian Science. It begets inspiration and courage in the heart of one reaching out to God to feel that at last he has found that whereby he can prove for himself the Word of God.

In the Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," our beloved Leader, Mary Baker Eddy, tells us ( p. 390 ), "It is our ignorance of God, the divine Principle, which produces apparent discord, and the right understanding of Him restores harmony.

The understanding of God's law possessed by Christ Jesus was greater than that of any other human being. Not only did he possess a profound knowledge of spiritual law, but he successfully practiced and demonstrated this law.

When one has been elected Reader in a Church of Christ, Scientist, prayerful thought should be given to the presentation of the message of Truth which he has been called upon to voice. It is of utmost importance that the inspired Word of the Bible and "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy, our dual impersonal pastor, be apprehended by the listener.

A Joyous discovery awaits everyone who begins the study of Christian Science. To grasp the ideas contained in the Bible and the Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy, casual reading is not enough.

Over two hundred times throughout the Bible the word covenant occurs. Occasionally it refers to a covenant between individuals, as for instance the covenant between David and Jonathan and the covenant between Joshua and the children of Israel; but usually it refers to God's covenant with man, God's sacred pledge of love and care for His children.