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With Mary, Martha, and their friends, Christ Jesus stood before the tomb of Lazarus and prayed the prayer of faith and spiritual understanding. Lifting up his eyes to heaven, he humbly said, "Father, I thank thee that thou hast heard me.

What a word is possession! fraught with infinite possibilities for weal or woe, according to placement; in God's hands or otherwise. God made heaven and earth, the sea and all that in them is; to Him then they belong.

Our beloved Leader, Mary Baker Eddy, writes in her book "Miscellaneous Writings" (p. 44) , "Honest students speak the truth 'according to the pattern showed to thee in the mount,' and live it: these are not working for emoluments, and may profitably teach people, who are ready to investigate this subject, the rudiments of Christian Science.

To live in the consciousness of uninterrupted good, to experience the happiness of true being, is to demonstrate Christian Science in its naturalness and simplicity. Joy, health, harmony, abundance proceed from divine Mind; and because man is the expression of divine Mind he necessarily expresses these and all other divine qualities, not intermittently, but continuously.

In the Glossary of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" (p. 585) our revered Leader, Mary Baker Eddy, gives a definition of "Elias" which reads, "Prophecy; spiritual evidence opposed to material sense; Christian Science, with which can be discerned the spiritual fact of whatever the material senses behold; the basis of immortality.

The right idea of Church is wholly spiritual. In "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" ( p.

An experienced traveler prepares himself in advance for a visit to a new country. He studies simpler aspects of the language, the geography, and the customs of the people and may, by means of maps of the principal cities, be able to orient himself so that later, when he threads his way through a city's streets, it will be as if he had been there previously.

Upon entering the new atmosphere of college life, a young student of Christian Science found that now, more than ever before, the suggestions to partake of alcoholic beverages and tobacco were strong and unrelenting, and the arguments subtly convincing and persuasive. It soon became evident to this student that almost all her friends, whom she looked upon as alert, up-to-date men and women, were following the very practices which she had been taught for years in a Christian Science Sunday School were erroneous and fleeting concepts of recreation.

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.