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In certain old folk tales trouble is always knocking at the door of the householder. Each time it comes in a different guise, the wolf in the costume of a lamb, the witch in a charming mask.

The plumb line, or plummet, is a weighted line used by the builder to determine verticality—uprightness. That which is out of plumb is out of true.

Christ Jesus taught and preached for three years only; yet in this brief period he was able to teach the everlasting unity of God and man and to demonstrate this fact in the healing of sin and disease. His words and works have been and will continue to be emulated throughout the centuries by all his enlightened and faithful followers.

A Gifted minister was once asked to explain how he held the attention of his audience. "First," he said, "I light a match, and then I build a bridge.

One of humanity's chief needs is to realize the infinite source and scope of intelligence, and Christian Science is meeting this need. Countless individuals have been and are being freed from the meshes of inadequacy, iniquity, and insanity, through the spiritual understanding of the perfection of God and His perfect man—perfect divine Mind and its perfect divine idea.

God, Spirit, who created all, comprehends all to be as spiritual and perfect as He made it. The harmony and perfection of man, the expression of God, is intact, unopposable, and everlastingly evident.

In speaking of Jesus, Mary Baker Eddy, the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, writes in "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" ( p. 26 ), "His mission was to reveal the Science of celestial being, to prove what God is and what He does for man.

" Son, thou art ever with me, and all that I have is thine" ( Luke 15:31 ). This teaching of Christ Jesus, in the parable of the prodigal son, expressing the fact of the Father's abundant provision for His son, constitutes the basis for the demonstration of supply for every human need.

When James VI of Scotland became James I of England in 1603, the Church of England was no longer under the Pope, but the English monarch was the supreme head. It was a national (Anglican) church made up of a majority who were Episcopalian and two minorities of nonconformists—Protestants, such as the Puritans, and Roman Catholics who still retained their faith.

In April, 1895, Mary Baker Eddy ordained the Bible and "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" as the only Pastor of the Church of Christ, Scientist. It is worthy of note that in the Manual of The Mother Church our Leader writes under "Moral Obligations" ( Art.