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" SUFFER the little children to come unto me, and forbid them not: for of such is the kingdom of God," said Christ Jesus ( Mark 10: 14 ). Jesus loved little children; he restored them to life and health; he told his disciples that unless they became like little children, they could not enter the kingdom of heaven.

TO Christian Scientists, the word church has come to mean more than a mere physical structure where people may go to worship. They are learning that the only real and living Church is the spiritual expression, or manifestation, of God.

" Mother , why do you study all the Lesson-Sermon every day?" asked twelve-year-old Bobby. "Isn't once or twice a week enough? Or, why not study one section each day and then listen to all of it read in church on Sunday?" Now Bobby's mother knew that the Bible and "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy are the only preachers in Christian Science churches, and she understood how important the Lesson-Sermons in the Christian Science Quarterly are.

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.