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It is related in the thirteenth chapter of I Chronicles that King David at one time during his reign made preparations for the ark to be brought from Kirjathjearim to Jerusalem. The accustomed method of carrying the ark was to have it borne by certain priests of the Levites.

HOW can we prove good to be real in our experience? By giving it activity and expression in our thinking and in our life. This is what is meant by the realization of good.

To anyone tempted to feel burdened by the seemingly heavy demands made upon him in these fast moving times, Christian Science speaks with tender, divinely intelligent persuasion, bidding him look up and recognize that God's demands come first in importance and that obedience to them makes the yoke easy and the burden light. For Christian Science teaches mankind to exchange the bondage of materiality for the freedom of spirituality, the false sense of living for the true.

The foundational truth of Christian Science, that God, good, is infinite and absolute, supports within itself the conclusive evidence that man and all things real have their origin, existence, and continuity in Him and nowhere else. At the same time this truth establishes scientifically that evil, or error, is impossible in this infinity of good.

Aging is death in slow motion. The human sense of existence accepts it without questioning, even as this sense believes death to be unavoidable and final.

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.