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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.

PRAYERFUL study of the definition of "Church" which our God-directed Leader, Mary Baker Eddy, has given us ( Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, p. 583 ), reveals that the most acceptable contribution one can make to church is his daily realization and demonstration of spiritual truths in overcoming material beliefs.

IT is related in the fourth chapter of Luke's Gospel that Jesus was at one time led into the wilderness, where he was tempted of the devil, who ''said unto him, If thou be the Son of God, command this stone that it be made bread. " And we are told that "Jesus answered him, saying, It is written, That man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word of God.

CHRISTIAN SCIENCE is defined by its Discoverer and Founder, Mary Baker Eddy, in "Rudimental Divine Science"' ( p. 1 ), "As the law of God, the law of good, interpreting and demonstrating the divine Principle and rule of universal harmony.

"EACH individual is responsible for himself. " Much encouragement is to be found in these words of Mary Baker Eddy's in "Miscellaneous Writings" ( p.

THE main theme of Christian Science is that Truth, Spirit, is real, and that matter, error, is unreal. But this does not mean by any possible inference that we are to ignore or dismiss the specific suggestions of error which insistently seek our acceptance, or fail to replace such false beliefs with the specific truths of which they are but faulty counterfeits.