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In the Manual of The Mother Church by Mary Baker Eddy, the Historical Sketch closes with this paragraph ( p. 19 ): "The First Church of Christ, Scientist, in Boston, Mass.
It is recorded in the ninth chapter of Luke's Gospel that the Master, Christ Jesus, "called his twelve disciples together, and gave them power and authority over all devils, and to cure diseases. And he sent them to preach the kingdom of God, and to heal the sick.
In the twenty-second chapter of Luke we read that as "the feast of unleavened bread drew nigh" the scribes and chief priests were endeavoring to find some reason to satisfy their desire to kill Jesus. Jesus had told his disciples that he desired to eat the Passover with them, for he would not again partake of this feast until his mission was fulfilled, or until the kingdom of God should come.
Phenomenon is defined as "a thing that appears or is perceived. " Noumenon is imperceptible to the material senses; phenomenon is seen, felt, heard, smelled.
It was on a Sunday morning just prior to the Christmas holidays that a teacher in a Christian Science Sunday School observed that the little girls in her class were unusually restless. She endeavored to quiet this undercurrent of excitement by having them read sections of the Lesson-Sermon.
When Jesus was born in Bethlehem, Herod believed that he wanted to kill Jesus. Why? To stop the oncoming Christ-light which would expose the nothingness of materiality.
Job , floundering in the morass of human opinions, cried ( Job 3:25 ), "The thing which I greatly feared is come upon me. " David, however, the inspired Psalmist, lifting his vision above the evidence of the deceitful senses, sang exultingly ( Ps.
Christian Science reveals the vast difference between material, wishful thinking and spiritual knowing. One takes place in the realm of belief; and the other in spiritual consciousness.
Loyalty is a royal word! It implies a stanch heart and a high cause. Loyalty is fortified by conviction.
Our work as Christian Scientists is naturally concerned in large part nowadays with various aspects of the war. It is clearly our privilege to know and prove that the power of God is not limited in relation to any of these aspects.