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Through Christian Science the Scriptures are illumined, and the parables and sayings of Jesus unfold in clarity and meaning as the student turns in thought from the material sense of creation, commonly accepted as real, to the spiritual sense, based on the first chapter of Genesis. In the textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy, the chapter headed "Glossary" enables one to translate material terms into their spiritual meaning, which, when apprehended, furthers progress.

In Mark it is related that one day there came a certain ruler to Jesus, asking for help for his little daughter, who lay "at the point of death. " On the way to the ruler's house people thronged the Master and delayed his arrival.

Mary Baker Eddy writes in "Miscellaneous Writings" ( p. 23 ): "Few there are who comprehend what Christian Science means by the word reflection.

" The determination to hold Spirit in the grasp of matter is the persecutor of Truth and Love. " So writes Mary Baker Eddy, the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, on page 28 of her textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures.

Today , plans of every kind are being made for the present and the future, for victory in war and peace, for health, for security and happiness, for democracy and freedom. And to this universal planning for a new world Christian Science offers an invaluable contribution.

The progressive thinker instructed in Christian Science knows that the one need of humanity is spiritual enlightenment, a clear understanding of the nature of God and His creation and the futility and nothingness of evil. It is of paramount importance that men should realize that the arena where every conflict with evil is fought and finally won is in individual thinking.

Christian Science teaches that true worship of God is shown forth in an explicit understanding of divine Love accompanied by good deeds. Our love for God can always be measured by our love for man, and it is by deeds that men find access to heaven, harmony.

In absolute Christian Science there is only one dominion, and that is the dominion of God, divine Principle. Principle governs all that exists in the harmony of its perfect law, the law of Spirit, divine Love.

During the latter half of the last century, a keen English observer of nature was recording his findings and used a unique method of developing his subject. When giving a lecture at a certain place, he began by recalling a visit to that town as a boy, when he noticed the stain on the marble fountain in the public park.

It appears from the Gospel narratives that Peter and his wife lived in Capernaum, and that they shared their home with his mother-in-law, for it is recorded that Jesus healed her of a severe case of fever—a cure so swift and so complete that she at once arose from her bed and proceeded to minister to the needs of the Master and those who accompanied him (Mark 1:21, 29-31). Although he did not travel as constantly as did the Apostle Paul, Peter journeyed to various parts of Palestine and Syria, while an ancient tradition credits him with having visited Rome itself.