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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.

" Every day make its demands upon us for higher proofs rather than professions of Christian power," Mary Baker Eddy writes on page 233 of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures. " These higher proofs are the progressive demonstration of our spiritual and perfect selfhood, and our Leader further tells us: "These proofs consist solely in the destruction of sin, sickness, and death by the power of Spirit, as Jesus destroyed them.

On more than one occasion Mary Baker Eddy speaks of Christian Science as being the higher criticism. On page 240 of "The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and Miscellany" she explains, "I now repeat another proof, namely, that Christian Science is the higher criticism because it criticizes evil, disease, and death—all that is unlike God, good—on a Scriptural basis, and approves or disapproves according to the word of God.

Christian Science , which brings to mankind an understanding of spiritual reality, defines with scientific exactness the true identity of men and all things. It shows that God is the only cause and creator and reveals that all He creates is good and spiritual.

From one end of the Bible to the other is iterated the truth of God's omnipotent goodness, which shows His ability to keep His creation, including man, healthy, harmonious, and happy, and of His love, which makes Him willing to do so. Over and over again the sacred pages tell us of a God who is good, all-powerful, merciful, gentle, and just; of an intelligence, or Mind, which is the source of all true being and makes all that is made.

Christian Science brings to every field of human endeavor a better and improved concept of activity. This is true for the student and scholar as well as the businessman, the artist, the laborer, and the homemaker.

God as a subject of conversation ought to be one that is easy, natural, and frequent. Picture two commuters on the way home from business relating unembarrassedly in conversational tones that might be overheard what God had done for them that day.

" What you need is a man with you. " This remark was made to a woman whom a few friends were seeing off on a journey to another country about three thousand miles away.