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In the course of his Sermon on the Mount, Christ Jesus said, "If therefore the light that is in thee be darkness, how great is that darkness!" And Shakespeare, that great commentator on human nature, gave the following as part of Polonius' farewell to his son: This above all: to thine own self be true, And it must follow, as the night the day, Thou canst not then be false to any man. Both quotations are arresting: the one a warning; the other a promise.

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In the years during which Mary Baker Eddy was seeking and finding Truth, great revival meetings were being held in this country. Preachers were striving to awaken their congregations to the subtle nature of sin, and were urging a return to godliness and religious fervor.

One of the vital names for God which our beloved Leader, Mary Baker Eddy, has revealed to us, is divine Principle. The word "principle," from a Latin word which means "beginning," is defined as "a source or origin.

The all intelligent principle, God, naturally loves the beauty and perfection of His universe. Because of His intelligent appreciation of good, He must love the God likeness of man, and this relationship is indicated by the name Father-Mother, which is used as a synonym for God by Mary Baker Eddy.

Imperative characteristics are those which are positive and binding. They are the indispensable, indwelling requirements which cannot be shunned or shirked by the Christian Scientist.

The divine Mind—and there is no other real Mind—expresses itself in ideas which are at once comprehensible to the Mind conceiving them. These ideas are complete, so that no imperfection exists in the spiritual creation because of omission, deficiency, or oversight.

The golden thread of God's love to man running all through the Bible shows that wherever and whenever there has been a receptive consciousness, the Christ has become to that one a living reality and a demonstrable power. The consciousness of Truth and Love with which Mary Baker Eddy was blessed, opened her heart to the Christ Science we have today.

" As for me. thou upholdest me in mine integrity, and settest me before thy face for ever.

The human mind loves mystery and miracle. It likes to believe that there is resident within itself an occult power that the initiated can use to produce effects that the uninitiated know not how to combat, and so must become its victims.