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IN order to demonstrate Christian Science we must be able to perceive the truths it reveals of God and His relation to man. It is easy to think of God as Spirit because we know Him only as incorporeal, but, because the concept of man as corporeal has been accepted as reality for so many years, we find it difficult to think of man as wholly spiritual, God's likeness.

INQUIRIES regarding the nature of power and where it may be found are generally answered with the assertion that it is a material force or energy outside of men; that men are endowed with only a small proportion of the total sum of power. Even though it might be agreed that there is such a thing as spiritual and mental power, this phase of power would be largely considered as subject to laws of matter and as operating only after the demands of material laws had been met or set aside.

TO those who are struggling in the sea of mortal, limited thinking, Christian Science comes with the wonderful news that gratitude is a spiritual power which removes all error, for it brings to consciousness that loving, joyous presence of the power of God which gives the first glimpse of man's dominion. Gratitude opens wide the door of human consciousness, and our lives become flooded with the light that leads into all good.

THE law of God is the law of Love. It is the universal and impartial law of perfection, harmony, and peace to man and the universe.

" My son has had every advantage that a wealthy father could give him," gratefully commented one of my friends. I understood her gratitude, for I knew that she had been left alone, without material resources, to rear her child.

CORRECTLY viewed, everything appreciable to human thought has spiritual significance. Mary Baker Eddy indicates this in her "Miscellaneous Writings," where she says ( pp.

IT is the work of every Christian Scientist to sponsor the mental advancement of mankind by transforming the world about him, the universe of mankind, into the "home of marvellous light" prophesied by Mary Baker Eddy, the beloved Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science. "A right apprehension of the wonderful utterances of him who 'spake as never man spake,'" she declares of the teachings of Christ Jesus, "would despoil error of its borrowed plumes, and transform the universe into a home of marvellous light,— 'a consummation devoutly to be wished'" (Unity of Good, p.

MORTALS have been taught to believe that they have a material mind and that this mind contains a human memory which can be lost or impaired with the passing of time, a condition over which they seem to have little or no control. However, since all true consciousness is Mind, and Mind is God, each individual reflects Mind, or consciousness, in the same way that the sun expresses itself through its rays.

THE contemplation of existence without personal friends presents for most people a disconcerting and unhappy picture of loneliness. Yet Mary Baker Eddy writes in "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" ( p.

PROBABLY one of the greatest desires of a mortal is to have a better body—a body freed from sickness, from pain, from fatigue, from ugliness. Christ Jesus, who performed his works in accordance with God's directing, disregarded all material healing remedies and methods and showed mankind how to overcome, through spiritual means alone, the ills and shortcomings of the flesh.