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" UNDER divine Providence there can be no accidents, since there is no room for imperfection in perfection. " This remarkable statement by Mary Baker Eddy in the Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" ( p.

AND all our yesterdays have lighted fools The way to dusty death. So wrote Shakespeare.

" THEN Philip went down to the city of Samaria, and preached Christ unto them. And the people with one accord gave heed unto those things which Philip spake.

THE Old Testament records Elijah's exhortation to the people that they depart from idolatrous worship and give undivided loyalty to the one and only God. The narrative reads ( I Kings 18:21 ): "And Elijah came unto all the people, and said, How long halt ye between two opinions? if the Lord be God, follow him: but if Baal, then follow him.

THE basis and substance of Christian Science practice is the oneness, the allness, of Principle and its idea. The earnest student of Christian Science spends much time in studying and pondering the definitions of God as found on pages 465 and 587 of the Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy, for the understanding of Principle, God, carries with it the understanding of man, God's idea, his nature, origin, and substance.

IF someone should ask for a concise formulation of Mary Baker Eddy's contribution to the advancement of human progress, it might be replied that it is the discovery of the practical metaphysics underlying Christ Jesus' works. The study of metaphysics as a theoretical discipline or human philosophy goes back to the early Greeks, and the word "metaphysics" is Greek in origin.

GOD, Love, is all good. Therefore all that can be transmitted to man is good, for good is the only reality.

TO be in one's right place is to be conscious of man's oneness with God, with good alone. Scientifically speaking, there is only one place, the right place: the sense of place which God eternally reveals to His own image and likeness, man.

Oft to every man and nation Comes the moment to decide. In the strife of Truth with falsehood, For the good or evil side.

" LET not your heart be troubled: ye believe in God, believe also in me," is the comforting assurance of our Master ( John 14:1 ). Christ Jesus was at all times in communion with his heavenly Father, and he demonstrated the great loving heart of Christ.