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True self-control results from the knowledge and understanding of man's status as the reflection, image, and likeness of God, Spirit. To attain this understanding it is necessary to know what God is.

" Oh that men would praise the Lord for his goodness, and for his wonderful works to the children of men! For he satisfieth the longing soul, and filieth the hungry soul with goodness" ( Ps. 107:8,9 ).

The thought of home is dear to everyone. To the human mind it symbolizes comfort and security, a place where one is loved and sheltered, where one may center his affections, and from which he may reach out to help the community and the world.

In "Rudimental Divine Science" Mary Baker Eddy, our Leader, states an important requirement for healing in the following words ( p. 9 ): "To heal, in Christian Science, is to base your practice on immortal Mind, the divine Principle of man's being; and this requires a preparation of the heart and an answer of the lips from the Lord.

Christian Science reveals the allness, the wholeness, and the reality of Life, God, and man's true being in God as His reflection, or manifestation. As the coming of dawn dispels the shades of night, so the recognition of man's spiritual identity discloses the utter falsity and nothingness of the belief of a mortal life with its sordid record of sin, sickness, discord, and death.

In the eternal now man is the son of God, the perfect image and likeness of his perfect creator, reflecting the glorious purity and satisfaction of his perfect Principle. How gratifying it is to know that the real man, and there is no other, goes through no process of suffering or struggle to rise to this perfect state, since he already includes it in his rich inheritance as the son of God.

When prayer is sincere and understanding, the petitioner may be assured of its fulfillment. Christ Jesus promised ( Matt.

The first chapter of Genesis, which gives the true version of creation, opens with the words, "In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. " To St.

Over and over again we read in the Bible of those who went up into a mountain to commune with God, to seek inspiration and revelation, and of the good which followed. Abraham went up into a mountain to sacrifice and was given the blessing of God.

In "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" Mary Baker Eddy writes ( pp. 191, 192 ), "Mind, God, sends forth the aroma of Spirit, the atmosphere of intelligence.