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IT was the Sabbath in Jerusalem. The pool of Bethesda, as the Gospel of John reveals, was the gathering place for invalids who had been informed that at certain times an angel would descend into the pool, stir up the water, and give it healing power, so that the first one who entered would be healed.

GOD is cause. The entire universe is the effect of this divine and only cause.

IN the realm of human existence it is considered impossible for anything material to be in two places at once, to be here and at the same time to be somewhere else. Yet the science of mathematics is always available everywhere, never confined partially or wholly to any one place.

" LIKE our nation, Christian Science has its Declaration of Independence. God has endowed man with inalienable rights, among which are self-government, reason, and conscience.

THE fabric of man's individuality becomes apparent in human experience in proportion as we gain the true idea of God, as revealed in Christian Science, and realize that man reflects in countless combinations all the spiritual qualities of divine Principle, Love, Mind, Soul, Spirit, Truth, Life. In other words, man's individuality, spiritual, perfect, and complete, begins to appear in human experience as we admit into consciousness the Christ, or spiritual idea of sonship, and strive to live the revelations of this ideal.

ARE we viewing the complex, troubled world picture with a longing to do something about it, and are we haunted by the suggestion, "What can a lone individual do?" Christian Science teaches that universal salvation begins with the individual. It rouses human consciousness and reveals to the receptive and willing thought the unlimited possibilities of man's individuality as the expression of God.

ONE of the early lessons of Christian Science is that man exists at the standpoint of perfection, the exact image of God. The practice of this Science involves conscious identification of oneself with this perfection.

MARY BAKER EDDY'S discovery that there is only one Mind rejects the general human belief in many minds. Substantiation of the oneness of God and of His infinite wisdom and intelligence permeates the Bible records.

HUMILITY is essential to growth in Christian Science. Mary Baker Eddy, the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, indicates this very plainly in her writings.

A CLERGYMAN of the last century, the Rev. Dr.