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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.

In several instances our Leader, Mary Baker Eddy, has used the illustration of a master sculptor to depict graphically the fundamental relationship existing between perfect workmanship and models or ideals. In her textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," she writes ( p.

More has been heard recently about the salutary effects of prayer than at any other period of modern history. One has but to pick up a newspaper or magazine or to listen to a radio program and he will learn of some experience in which the narrator has been saved, through prayer alone, from a perilous situation.

The Lesson-Sermon, which is read every Sunday in Christian Science churches all over the world, is unique. The Bible is read, together with "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy, the textbook of Christian Science.

Christianly scientific activity evidences the ceaseless co-ordination and continuity of divine ideas in the realm of infinite Mind. The unfoldment of Mind's ideas brings with it the law, power, authority, and immediate availability of His Word.

St. John, the divine, records as one of the messages he received from Christ Jesus for the church in Philadelphia, "Behold, I come quickly: hold that fast which thou hast, that no man take thy crown.

"A Sinner can receive no encouragement from the fact that Science demonstrates the unreality of evil," writes the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science; "for," she continues, "the sinner would make a reality of sin,—would make that real which is unreal, and thus heap up 'wrath against the day of wrath. ' " In the foregoing words from page 339 of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," Mary Baker Eddy warns her readers in effect that the deceitfulness of material sense would argue that mortals do not need to handle error; that they can do no wrong, because there is no evil; and that they do not need to work out their salvation, because man is already the image and likeness of God, hence in no need of salvation.

Among the many great gifts which Mary Baker Eddy has provided are the Christian Science organizations at colleges and universities. Planned especially to meet the needs of young men and women, this gift has far-reaching effects.