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IN Christian Science, ideas are understood to originate in the divine Mind, Spirit, the only cause or Principle of existence. Consequently they are spiritual, substantial, immutable, eternal, harmonious, indestructible, and ever available.

OUR beloved Leader, Mary Baker Eddy, has made it clear that living in obedience to divine Principle is Christian Science practice. On page 12 of "Miscellaneous Writings" she says: "We should measure our love for God by our love for man; and our sense of Science will be measured by our obedience to God,—fulfilling the law of Love, doing good to all; imparting, so far as we reflect them, Truth, Life, and Love to all within the radius of our atmosphere of thought.

SPIRITUAL understanding is all-important to the demonstration of Christian Science. But evil sometimes suggests to the student of Christian Science that he has not sufficient understanding to apply his religion effectively to his human affairs.

CHRISTIAN SCIENCE is the religion of power. It is the revelation of the infinite power of God bestowed upon man and is available to each of us here and now to meet every human need.

IT is only by looking heavenward that mutual friendships such as ours can begin and never end" ( The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and Miscellany, p. 204 ).

THE perfect, immutable children of God coexist with infinite Mind, where only good exists, and where all the beliefs of error are forever unknown. As faithful witnesses and expressions of an infinite God, they possess all the qualities of Love as its reflection, and need not strive to obtain good, for God gives impartially to all of His ideas.

IN the illustrated poem "Christ and Christmas" by Mary Baker Eddy is a picture entitled "Christian Science Healing" that portrays the spiritual illumination and power with which Christian Science heals the sick. The central figure in the picture is that of a woman standing by the bedside of a sick man.

" WHEN you handle error, don't put a handle on it. " This sage counsel of a Christian Scientist has been most helpful to the writer.

IN simple directness the Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy, poses the question that has challenged sage and philosopher alike ( p. 281 ): "What is the Ego, whence its origin and what its destiny?" And the profound, inspired answer which follows solves the mystery of being: "The Ego-man is the reflection of the Ego-God; the Ego-man is the image and likeness of perfect Mind, Spirit, divine Principle.

" If you don't stand for something, you'll fall for anything. " So reads a familiar old saying—one which has been thoroughly tested throughout the years.