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In "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" Mary Baker Eddy has defined Christ as follows ( p. 583 ): "The divine manifestation of God, which comes to the flesh to destroy incarnate error.

Consider for a moment the unique advantage of our position as Christian Scientists—an advantage equally open, of course, to everyone. We are confronted with what appear to be material men and a material world, and the problems associated with materiality, but by reason of Christian Science we are without the dismay or uncertainty which much of mankind feels in the face of these appearance.

" No greater hope have we than in right thinking and right acting, and faith in the blessing of fidelity, courage, patience, and grace," writes Mary Baker Eddy (The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and Miscellany, p. 209 ).

You will recall from reading your "Alice in Wonderland" that the Mock Turtle, in describing his education to Alice, speaks of it in this way: "Reeling and Writhing, of course, to begin with, and then the different branches of Arithmetic—Ambition, Distraction, Uglification, and Derision. " One could look upon this as pure nonsense.

" The Bible and the Christian Science textbook are our only preachers. " (Explanatory Note, by Mary Baker Eddy, Christian Science Quarterly.

The early history of the United States is highlighted by accounts of the transformation of the wilderness into a place suitable for the expanding needs of the early settlers. It is sometimes argued that the lack of new frontiers to settle and develop has brought America to a declining economy, that is, to a restricted outlook economically.

Under the marginal heading "The great question" our revered Leader, Mary Baker Eddy, writes in "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" ( pp. 307, 308 ): "Above error's awful din.

" Knowing that Soul and its attributes were forever manifested through man," writes our beloved Leader, Mary Baker Eddy, in "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" ( p. 210 ), "the Master healed the sick, gave sight to the blind, hearing to the deaf, feet to the lame, thus bringing to light the scientific action of the divine Mind on human minds and bodies and giving a better understanding of Soul and salvation.

Almost everyone has at some time awakened in the darkness which precedes the dawn. Sometimes the chirping of a little bird is heard, heralding the songs of other birds joyfully announcing the beginning of a new day.

In this age of startling discoveries and inventions, men are becoming more readily receptive of revolutionary scientific truths. Radio, aviation, and other developments of a freer, broader concept of existence are paving the way to a more universal acceptance of the greatest of all discoveries, the Science of Life.