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Commenting on Jesus' parable spoken in the house of Simon the Pharisee, Mary Baker Eddy writes on page 363 of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures": "He described two debtors, one for a large sum and one for a smaller, who were released from their obligations by their common creditor. 'Which of them will love him most?' was the Master's question to Simon the Pharisee; and Simon replied, 'He to whom he forgave most.

For thousands of years mankind, endowed with the faculty of reason, the capacity to search and experiment, has examined certain questions—vital questions—to which the majority believe answers have not yet been found. Such questions as: What is the origin of the universe and man? How did life originate on our planet? What is life? Men realize that when they understand causation—the Supreme Being—they will have found all the answers.

A design is a plan, a purpose; and this age has been called anew, through a "still small voice," to consider God's complete and perfect plan for His people. Today the Bible is holding the earnest attention of men and women beyond that of any other period.

In Jesus' parable of the prodigal son recorded in the fifteenth chapter of Luke's Gospel, we read of a father who had two sons. The younger son requested that his father give him "the portion of goods" which were his by inheritance.

One  of the many interesting marginal headings in our textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy, is "Veritable success" ( p. 372 ).

O longing hearts that wait on God Through all the world so wide; He knows the angels that you need, And sends them to your side, To comfort, guard and guide. How gently dawns the comfort of this message, found in the Christian Science Hymnal, upon all humble seekers who are earnestly endeavoring to work out of the darkness of materiality into the glorious light of Spirit.

The word "shadow" has a diversity of meaning, but perhaps most often it is associated with darkness or obscuration. In the Biblical account of the works of the disciples after Jesus left them, this word is used with quite a different meaning.

The strength, permanency, and progress of the Christian Science church depend on the alertness and success of its members in governing themselves and their church on the basis of spiritual understanding and demonstration. After years of prayer, toil, and sacrifice in the endeavor to establish her church, our beloved Leader, Mary Baker Eddy, discerned this great fact, and she sounded the keynote in the Manual of The Mother Church when she wrote ( p.

A wealthy young man once went to Jesus with a very important question. He wished to know what he should do to secure eternal life.

Probably no one realized better than did the beloved Founder of the Christian Science movement, Mary Baker Eddy, the trials and vicissitudes facing the men, and, in modern times, the women of the armed forces of the nations, and the invaluable and effective aid which their relatives and friends who are enjoying the protection and privilege of home life can afford them. "In your peaceful homes," she writes (Christian Science versus Pantheism, pp.