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When the pure and immaculate Christ Jesus came to John for baptism, the amazement of John was unfeigned, and he hesitated to comply with Jesus' request, declaring that he needed to have Jesus baptize him instead. According to the third chapter of Matthew, John had declared, previous to his baptism of Jesus, that one would follow him who was greater than he and would use a different type of baptism, a spiritual baptism, which would purge and purify human consciousness as fire consumes dross.

Have you ever thought, "If only I could keep my mind on my work"? How often our attempts to work are hindered by the false suggestion that good and evil can wander into consciousness at will ! According to this misconcepiton, at any moment anything—fearful suggestions, scenes long forgotten, vicious impulses, or yesterday's grocery list—may pop into our consciousness. That such uncontrollable mental gymnastics are no part of true consciousness is one of the blessed revelation brought to mankind in the discovery of Christian Science.

Deep-Seated in the heart of humanity is the tendency to postpone good and to labor under the illusion that the future holds more harmony and joy than can be enjoyed in the immediate present. Mankind goes on hoping and waiting for better jobs, healthier bodies, more congenial companionship, happier home circumstances, and so forth, as if activity, health, love, and contentment were something external to man's real identity.

Peace is the pearl which individuals and nations have been striving to possess since time immemorial. Isaiah foretold the coming of peace when he described the Messiah, or Christ, as "The Prince of Peace.

In almost every avenue of human activity and endeavor it is necessary at times for one to identify himself. Travelers, especially, must have at hand adequate means of identification.

Mortals are indifferent to the things of Spirit, and to the Science of Christianity, which pertains to the things of Spirit. "And why," asks the consecrated Christian Scientist, "do some of those who call themselves Christian Scientists seem so immersed in unimportant material doings?" The answer must be that they are more interested in the daily happenings of human experience than they are in eternal reality and in learning to know God and serve mankind.

Jesus' inspired prayer at the grave of his friend Lazarus was perhaps as startling to his audience as was the visible proof of eternal Life which immediately followed. In anticipation of his marvelous victory over death and the grave he said ( John 11:41, 42 ): "Father, I thank thee that thou hast heard me.

Christian Science, through Mary Baker Eddy, its Discoverer and Founder, is teaching the world that God, and God alone, God as infinite Mind, as divine Life, Truth, Love, governs and sustains all His creation. The revelation of Christian Science comes to a race of men educated to believe that evil is real and powerful and that materiality largely governs their life experience.

CHRIST JESUS ' demonstration, in his scientific sonship with God, of the infinite ability of Spirit was also the demonstration, for all mankind, of the inability of corporeality. Every proof of Spirit's allness which his words and works exemplify is also proof of the nothingness of the supposititious opposite of that allness: corporeal sense, denounced by Jesus as both lie and liar, and appearing to itself to have identity as mortal man.

WHAT incomparable satisfaction is experienced when thought rises above a finite, personal sense of existence and the divine Mind is joyously accepted as the only Mind—the only I, or Ego! Immediately the woes which come of sinful, fleshly thinking begin to fade from consciousness. The human mind, so called, has been in a measure put off, and God, or Mind, ever aware of His own indivisible oneness and allness, His own immaculate perfection and indestructible harmony, is present as man's only Mind.