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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.

IN the early 1870's, when a wrong impression of Christian Science was imposed on the public by an item in a Lynn, Massachusetts, newspaper, Mary Baker Eddy came to the public's defense. She wrote a correction and succeeded in having the editor publish it.

SOMETIMES one may hear it said, "I tried Christian Science and it didn't heal me. " Such a remark sounds as though the speaker had experimented with some widely advertised drug without benefit.

EVERYONE likes to feel that he is contributing something worth while to his environment; and this is natural, for such aspiration is based on a spiritual fact, the fact that every idea in God's universe is necessary, worthy, and productive of good. Men and women who are ignorant of man's unchanging status as the image and likeness, or reflection, of God often seem to be driven by such ungodly thoughts as selfinterest, pride, competition, and fear as they seek to find a place where they can be useful.

BECAUSE of his sure sense that God, all-powerful good, is the Father of man and the universe, and that the reflection, the emanation, of this perfection must be perfect, Christ Jesus could say to his followers ( John 14:27 ): "Peace I leave with you, my peace I give unto you: not as the world giveth, give I unto you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid.

MARY BAKER EDDY in her principal work, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," states definitely ( p. 275 ), "The starting-point of divine Science is that God, Spirit, is All-in-all, and that there is no other might nor Mind,—that God is Love, and therefore He is divine Principle.