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The artist who recognizes talent as an expression of divine Principle, rather than as a personal possession, has gone a long way in overcoming restraints and limitations in demonstrating his God-derived capability and individuality in his field of art. Concerning the recognition of man's nature, our Leader, Mary Baker Eddy, says in "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" (p.

In the sense of ever-present, timeless being, man may be said to have a history, for then this being has no past or future, no beginning and no end, but is ever unfolding without sense of age or time. Mary Baker Eddy uses the word history in this absolute sense when she says in "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" ( pp.

Grace is a word much used in Christian faith. The Psalmist wrote ( Ps.

At Wednesday testimony meetings in Churches of Christ, Scientist, we often hear gratitude expressed in these words: "I found a refuge in Christian Science," or, "I turned away from the discordant sense and read the Bible and 'Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures' by Mary Baker Eddy, textbooks of Christian Science; there I found a haven and healing. " In the time of Noah, when disaster threatened the earth, the patriarch was guided by God to build an ark.

That success in human affairs can be attained by putting spiritual things first was indicated by Jesus when he said ( Matt. 6:33 ), "Seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you.

In a Christian Science Sentinel it is related that a Sunday School teacher asked her class the question, "What is a duty?" and one little girl replied, "Something we ought to do. " She then asked, "And what is a privilege?" The same little girl answered, "Something we like to do.

Christian Science reveals the joyous truth that man, as the child of God, lives in the realm of perfect Mind. He rejoices in God-given freedom, dominion, completeness, and immortality.

The lives of Jesus, our Master, and of Mary Baker Eddy, our Leader, were filled with active love for God and man. The New Testament is replete with parables pointing to Jesus' loving and compassionate solution of the problems which came before him.

THE ever-presence of good is recognized through spiritual discernment—the intelligent realization of spiritual facts, or the understanding of being as spiritual. An appreciation of good received in the past often hastens or enhances one's enjoyment of good in the present.

IN her Message to The Mother Church for 1902, Mary Baker Eddy writes (p. 14) : "I suggest as a motto for every Christian Scientist,—a living and life-giving spiritual shield against the powers of darkness,— 'Great not like Cæsar, stained with blood, But only great as I am good.