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On page 368 of the Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," Mary Baker Eddy, the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, writes: "Because matter has no consciousness or Ego, it cannot act: its conditions are illusions, and these false conditions are the source of all seeming sickness. " By this and similar declarations, Mrs.

The absolute nature of God's government of man and the universe is clearly stated throughout the writings of the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, Mary Baker Eddy. A cogent statement of hers, relative to what is known as the actual business of government in the world today, reads as follows (Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, p.

David recognized in large measure the true nature of sovereignty when, at the height of his earthly career as king, he blessed the Lord before all the congregation and said: "Thine, O Lord, is the greatness, and the power, and the glory, and the victory, and the majesty: for all that is in the heaven and in the earth is thine; thine is the kingdom, O Lord, and thou art exalted as head above all. Both riches and honour come of thee, and thou reignest over all; and in thine hand is power and might; and in thine hand it is to make great, and to give strength unto all" ( I Chron.

One of the most revolutionary religious teachings is that of Christian Science concerning prayer. This Science removes prayer from the realm of blind faith and mere petition into the domain of accurate, ever-operative divine law.

Out of the crowd around him, according to Luke's record, a man asked Jesus to tell his brother to divide the inheritance with him. Jesus' answer was direct and penetrating ( Luke 12:14 ): "Man, who made me a judge or a divider over you?" One lesson we may learn from this is the indivisibility of good.

To spread abroad the gospel of the healing and redeeming Christ, Truth, is the mission of the branches of The Mother Church. To be a member of such a branch of the vine and to work and pray for its progress and loyalty to Truth, are priceless privileges.

When Jesus was brought before Pontius Pilate, the governor, for sentence, his plight indeed seemed to be a desperate and unenviable one. Since he had already been examined and condemned by Caiaphas, the high priest, and the elders, it would have seemed that only by a very forceful and convincing defense could Jesus hope to save himself.

In a recent dream, houses, trees, and people were exceptionally vivid, and curiously enough the dreamer while still in the dream debated whether or not the experiences were real, and decided that they were! Yet where were these objects and experiences when the awakening came? They were, of course, instantly recognized as dream concepts. Is there any likelihood that a mental awakening of men can and will disclose that present human experiences are dreamlike and therefore not the stuff of which absolute reality is made? Indeed there is this likelihood, and Christian Science is explaining why and how.

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.