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GOD'S promise of deliverance from every affliction is fulfilled today as it was of old. If one is confronted with a sense of hopelessness because of an inherited deformity and feels that there is no hope for him, he can be comforted, for the Comforter—Christian Science—is at hand to bless and heal him.

" YE believe in God, believe also in me," said Jesus ( John 14:1 ). What is this "me" which the Master acknowledged as his true selfhood? None but the Christ, which Mary Baker Eddy defines in the textbook of Christian Science as "the divine manifestation of God, which comes to the flesh to destroy incarnate error" ( Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, p.

WHEN mortal man turns from the material view of existence to the spiritual, changes for the better in human experience are inevitable. These improvements in the mortal scene are proofs that nothing has changed in reality; that all that is real is always good and harmonious in God's infinite kingdom.

" 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.