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A PHYSICIAN remarked to a friend of mine the other day: "I use Christian Science all the time. I know that thoughts can cause physical trouble, and I advise my patients to think happy thoughts so that their bodies will be healthier.

" EVERY kingdom divided against itself is brought to desolation; and every city or house divided against itself shall not stand. " So spake Christ Jesus many centuries ago in emphasizing the self-destruction of evil.

A YOUNG girl who attended a Christian Science Sunday School became seriously ill. Although she had Christian Science treatment from a faithful practitioner, relatives became alarmed and voiced fear of the necessity of amputation.

THROUGHOUT the Bible and in many writings on the Christian religion the idea of God as Father has been iterated and reiterated, and the numerous beautiful and inspiring passages in the Bible developing this thought have brought courage and strength to many individuals in time of need. In her writings Mary Baker Eddy has unfolded to mankind the fuller meaning of God's fatherhood and, what is of transcendent importance, has completed the revelation with the disclosure that God is Mother as well as Father.

" WHO shall separate us from the love of Christ? shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?" asks Paul ( Rom. 8:35 ).

" 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.