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IT is the mission of the healing Christ to establish in human consciousness the fact which already exists in divine Science, namely, that Life is eternal. When complete spiritualization of thought is achieved, this fact in all its reality will appear and the belief of death will be destroyed.

IN the record of Jesus' birth, as related in the second chapter of Luke's Gospel, we are told,. "And she [Mary] brought forth her firstborn son, and wrapped him in swaddling clothes, and laid him in a manger; because there was no room for them in the inn.

"For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but mighty through God to the pulling down of strong holds" ONCE a year the world is accustomed to look back reverently through the centuries to the historic night when Christ Jesus was born and to review the treasured story of how the Wisemen came to him, led by a guiding star. Consecrated seekers today are constantly rewarded with glimpses of the Christ, Truth.

The Lesson-Sermons in the Christian Science Quarterly contain the truths needed to solve human problems. Some years ago a Christian Science practitioner called this fact to the attention of a student, who has found that daily study of the Lesson never is without a reward.

God created man, the Bible tells us. So man is not self-made or man-made; he is God-made.

Christ Jesus realized his disciples' need of understanding his spiritual identity as the Son of God. In the sixteenth chapter of his Gospel, Matthew records that Jesus asked, "Whom do men say that I the Son of man am?" They replied, "Some say that thou art John the Baptist: some, Elias; and others, Jeremias, or one of the prophets.

Weary of its seemingly unending battle with adverse circumstances, the human heart at times cries out, "What is the reason for it all?" Mary Baker Eddy in "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" ( p. 536 ) asks a similar question: "Through toil, struggle, and sorrow, what do mortals attain?" Her answer is full of significance and hope: "They give up their belief in perishable life and happiness; the mortal and material return to dust, and the immortal is reached.

A Very important and fundamental provision in the by-laws of many Churches of Christ, Scientist, is contained in a quotation from "The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and Miscellany" by Mary Baker Eddy. The passage reads ( pp.

When Jesus was twelve years of age, he accompanied his parents to Jerusalem to attend the feast of the Passover. On their homeward journey his parents discovered his absence and returned to Jerusalem, where they found him in the temple conversing with the doctors and asking them questions.

Mankind generally looks upon justice as a human virtue. Consequently it believes justice to be inconstant—here today, gone tomorrow—and sometimes protests that there is no justice at all.