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In her book "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" Mary Baker Eddy, the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, states a proposition which she terms "the leading factor in Mind-science. " It is this: "Mind is All and matter is naught.

Describing the turbulent mental struggle of mankind in terms of stormtossed mariners, the Psalmist sang: "Then they cry unto the Lord in their trouble, and he bringeth them out of their distresses. He maketh the storm a calm, so that the waves thereof are still.

When the rich young man asked Christ Jesus what he should do to inherit eternal life, he was directed to obey the Commandments. He replied that he had always kept them.

In Christian Science the metaphysical process of gaining spiritual receptivity can be described as the mortal mind yielding to the divine. It is the surrendering of the human self to the spiritual.

Christian Science has come as Truth's revelation to this age. Not from the human intellect, not from any formulation of the human mind, but as discovery made through awakened spiritual desire, Mary Baker Eddy perceived the provable truth of God and His universe and made it available to mankind.

The one and only creation is the spiritual universe and man created by God. Furthermore, the infinitude of all real being is implicit in the allness of Spirit and is controlled by Spirit alone.

The Apostle Paul, in his epistle to the Colossians (3:2) , thus exhorted his fellow Christians: "Set your affection on things above, not on things on the earth. " The great Apostle of the Gentiles had learned from his own wide experience that the only lasting happiness on earth is found in "the fruit of the Spirit," which he defined as "love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith," and against which, he said, "there is no law" ( Gal.

Humanity in general is prone to wait for salvation from its many woes through what is vaguely termed "the afterlife. " This notion constitutes denial of present and immediate salvation.

Love , all-powerful and ever present, is one of the synonyms used for Deity in Christian Science. Students of this Science become aware of taking a great stride forward as they begin consciously to accept Love as the whole, instead of merely as an attribute, of God.

" Man in Science is neither young nor old," writes Mary Baker Eddy on page 244 of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures. " What a release from the bondage of timetables and calendars does the acceptance of this statement afford! In accordance with the first chapter of Genesis, Christian Science teaches that man is made in the image and likeness of God, that he is the expression of God's being.