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Those who have felt the healing touch of the Christ can never doubt that God is Love, nor can they question the power of the Christ to redeem mankind from the thralldom of mortality, the belief of an existence apart from God, immortal Life. Had it not been for the Christly compassion and spiritual understanding which he expressed towards the multitudes who came to him for healing, the Master could not have delivered them from their infirmities, for words alone are powerless to heal.

Earnest students of the Bible have found that many Scriptural passages, besides their beauty and historical significance, have a spiritual meaning and application, rich in comfort and inspiration. For example, in studying the Biblical account of Noah, we have the recorded fact that in obedience to divine command he built an ark as a place of safety from the destroying flood of waters.

In the Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," Mary Baker Eddy says ( p. 409 ): "The real man is spiritual and immortal, but the mortal and imperfect so-called 'children of men' are counterfeits from the beginning, to be laid aside for the pure reality.

In the Gospel of Matthew ( 21:19 ) it is recorded of Christ Jesus: "When he saw a fig tree in the way, he came to it, and found nothing thereon, but leaves only, and said unto it, Let no fruit grow on thee henceforward for ever. And presently the fig tree withered away.

We have heard much about self-righteousness, that quality which asserts personal justification on the authority of personal opinion. But is there a true sense of righteousness? Christian Science teaches that man derives his selfhood from God.

Mary Baker Eddy , the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, has lifted mankind's concept of church, with its ceremonies and creeds, from a material basis to the true idea of Church as "the structure of Truth and Love" ( Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, p. 583 ).

" In Science, divine Love alone governs man. " These seven simple words are read in all Christian Science churches on the first Sunday of each month.

It is impossible to overestimate the importance of healing to the Christian Science movement. Before our Leader, Mary Baker Eddy, lectured, taught, or wrote of her revelation, she healed.

The decision, "Not guilty," is usually quickly rendered in a court of law when the defendant can prove that he was not present when an alleged crime took place, even though all the evidence may have seemed incriminating. Through the revelation of Christian Science, we discover that man is not guilty; that he is not a material organism or chemical product of the Adam-dream, but the perfect idea of God.

In the second chapter of Luke we find the beautiful story of the nativity of Jesus. One can picture the shepherds who were watching "over their flock by night" receiving the angelic tidings of the Saviour's birth, then their hastening to Bethlehem to verify the "sign" given unto them: "Ye shall find the babe wrapped in swaddling clothes, lying in a manger.