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Christ Jesus often taught vital lessons to his followers through parables, thus presenting Truth in a way understandable to their unenlightened thought. Once he stressed the importance of brotherly love by relating the now familiar parable of the good Samaritan, whom he represented as administering compassionately to the needs of one who had been cruelly beaten by robbers and left by the wayside.

In "Unity of Good" Mary Baker Eddy writes, in speaking of God ( p. 3 ): "He is all the Life and Mind there is or can be.

" The hand is quicker than the eye," is a saying often heard among people who are being entertained by a prestidigitator. Magicians themselves also use this expression, but not in the same sense as their public uses it, because not one of them believes this to be the truth.

Many , having tasted the comfort, the A joy, and the healing efficacy of Truth as revealed in Christian Science, have a deep and sincere desire to comfort others and help free them from the shackles which bind and imprison them. For these, Mary Baker Eddy has pointed the pathway clearly and surely.

In the Christian Science textbook, page 349 of the textbook she states: "The chief difficulty in conveying the teachings of divine Science accurately to human thought lies in this, that like all other languages, English is inadequate to the expression of spiritual conceptions and propositions, because one is obliged to use material terms in dealing with spiritual ideas. " (See also her books No and Yes 11:8—11 and Miscellaneous Writings 365:26-27.

" The Christian Scientist has enlisted to lessen evil, disease, and death; and he will overcome them by understanding their nothingness and the allness of God, or good. " Thus writes our beloved Leader, Mary Baker Eddy, on page 450 of the Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures.

" It is the love of God, and not the fear of evil, that is the incentive in Science," our Leader, Mary Baker Eddy, tells us on page 279 of "Miscellaneous Writings. " As we ponder this arresting statement, we rejoice in the realization that all true progress in the world has come through this great love of God.

A Student of Christian Science was led to ponder the Bible narrative of Elijah as related in I Kings (19:4—12). The mental experience of the prophet, from the wilderness to Mount Horeb, the mount of God, illustrated to her the journey from sense to Soul, from the wilderness of material concepts to the truth of God as Spirit and man as His image and likeness, coexisting with Him.

When Moses led the children of Israel into the wilderness, he saw the need of a sanctuary which would symbolize to the primitive thought of the people the continual presence with them of the God of their fathers. So he caused to be constructed a tabernacle, a portable tentlike structure.

The poem "Feed My Sheep" (Poems, p. 14 ) was written by Mary Baker Eddy when she was pastor of The First Church of Christ, Scientist, in Boston and was carrying on the stupendous task of founding and leading the Christian Science movement.