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Biblical incidents, viewed in the light which Christian Science throws upon the Scriptures, gain a new significance. The familiar account of Peter's deliverance from prison, for instance, as related in the twelfth chapter of Acts, becomes timely.

All who would discern and deal with the basic cause of disease and heal metaphysically must know how to make the distinction between the transient human body and man's true spiritual identity. All may learn through the God-inspired writings of Mary Baker Eddy how to make this distinction between the real and the unreal and demonstrate the scientific fact of being.

" What hast thou in the house?" This was the startling question Elisha asked of the widow who had appealed to him for help when the creditor came to take her two sons as bondmen. Her answer ( II Kings 4:2 ), "Not any thing.

OF no other newspaper are the words, "News is the benediction that follows prayer," so true as of The Christian Science Monitor, the international daily newspaper founded in 1908 by Mary Baker Eddy as the crowning accomplishment in her establishment of five spiritually uplifting periodicals. The student who is accustomed to daily reading of the Christian Science periodicals is quick to recognize the distinction in their individual functions and the specific purpose of each.

KNOWING our Leader is a necessity for all who would progress in individual spiritual unfoldment. Being the one in this age who discovered Christ's healing and saving power, Mary Baker Eddy will always be the Leader of those who are following this revelation of divine Truth.

THE opening chapter of the Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," is entitled "Prayer. " In this remarkable chapter the author, Mary Baker Eddy, out of the fullness of her revelation, discloses the meaning and power of true prayer and the motives for praying.

" Follow the directions of God as simplified in Christian Science, and though it be through deserts He will direct you into the paths of peace. " So writes Mary Baker Eddy in "The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and Miscellany" ( p.

We need not submit to nor suffer adversity; we can triumph over it by reversing its claim to reality. God made all that has ever been made, and all His works are perfect.

There came a time in the lives of Abraham and his nephew Lot, so the thirteenth chapter of Genesis records, when they found that they could no longer dwell together because the land in which they were, was not able to support their combined herds and flocks. Furthermore, trouble arose between their respective herdsmen.

" Christian Science refutes everything that is not a postulate of the divine Principle, God," declares Mary Baker Eddy on page 364 of "Miscellaneous Writings. " And a little farther on in the same paragraph she continues, "It stands on this Scriptural platform: that He made all that was made, and it is good, reflects the divine Mind, is governed by it; and that nothing apart from this Mind, one God, is self-created or evolves the universe.