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It is often necessary to prove one's identity in order to carry out the simplest transactions in everyday experience. The correct receipt enables its possessor promptly to obtain checked merchandise or luggage or to secure his car from the parking lot.

Because they saw the wonderful healings that Christ Jesus performed, even the arrogant, materially-minded Pharisees sought to know how he performed these "miracles," as they called the healings. In reply to Nicodemus, one of their rulers, who came by night to learn more about these healings, Jesus said plainly ( John 3:6, 7 ): "That which is born of the flesh is flesh; and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit.

When Christ Jesus told Nicodemus ( John 3:3 ), "Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God,"' very naturally the Pharisee was perplexed, because his concept of birth was wholly material. He had not grasped the fact that our Master was speaking from a spiritual standpoint.

The first epistle of John closes with the significant admonition, "Little children, keep yourselves from idols" ( I John 5:21 ). Though the beginning of idolatry is lost in the mists of antiquity, it undoubtedly had its root in ignorance and fear.

In the first chapter of Genesis we read, "And God said, Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters. " "Firmament" Mary Baker Eddy defines in "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" ( p.

Peace-Loving men and women everywhere are fast awakening to the need of rallying moral and spiritual forces for world peace. They have learned that in no other way can the machinations of the foes of peace and progress be thwarted and straight paths made for the feet of future generations.

Humanitarian motives spring from Christian ideals. Christlike qualities, such as benevolence, philanthropy, and brotherly love, enliven interest in the welfare of others, inspire men with generous impulses, and translate the ideals of Christian service into helpful deeds.

Many and varied were the human ills presented to Christ Jesus for healing during his three years' ministry on earth. The lame, halt, sick, and sinful sought his compassionate touch and gentle assurance, confident that their every ill would disappear in the light of the truth he lived and expressed.

Sight , as a faculty of divine Mind, our Father-Mother God, is spiritual. Man possesses this faculty through reflection.

The term "individuality" is of profound interest to the student of Christian Science, for he knows that it is solely by conscious individual beings that God, the creative Principle of the real universe, is expressed. Every demonstration of Christian Science is a restoration, in some degree, of true individuality, and a disappearance in corresponding degree of the false mortal sense of existence.