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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.

IT is not surprising that a woman unaware of the mental nature of disease and burdened with a sense of fear turned to a Christian Science practitioner for help with but one thought in view, the healing of her physical body. When the practitioner explained to her that all discord comes from the erroneous concept of man as mortal and material, separated from Mind, and when the woman understood in a measure that there is no true existence apart from God, Spirit, she was healed.

IN her book "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" Mary Baker Eddy indicates that thought must extend beyond mere belief and faith, beyond materiality, beyond custom. While her revelation of Christian Science is complete and final, she offered many hints on relatively unexplored avenues of thinking, and she encouraged among her followers the habit of studying the Bible and her writings to ponder these hints and to write about them, thus reaching to higher levels of thought as fast as students could be made ready for a favorable reception of the ever-expanding truth of being.