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It is the privilege of each member of a church to do metaphysical work in preparation for a lecture. Our aim should be to do our work so well that the spirit of the healing Christ, Truth, will pervade every lecture assembly.
" I Know that I ought to be healed of resentment," people frequently say. They then go to work to dissipate resentment as though it were a cause instead of an effect.
Christopher Columbus' discovery of America opened the way for the development of a great new continent. Mary Baker Eddy, the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, tells us in the Preface to "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" ( p.
Two men were speaking of Christian Science. One was active in business, the other a friend and counselor of wide experience.
" Why should I read the Bible through?" asks the individual. To the student of literature, history, archaeology the answers are varied, but to the student of Christian Science there is but one answer as far as his religion is concerned, and that is that in the Bible he finds the record of the religious development of the Hebrew nation, culminating in Christianity; also experiences paralleling his own and contributing in their spiritual significance to modern life and progress.
Christian Science teaches that God is Life, and that man, God's reflection, is the individualized expression of Life. God loves and is ever conscious of man, individually as well as collectively.
In answer to the question, "What are body and Soul?" Mary Baker Eddy writes in "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" ( p. 477 ), "Identity is the reflection of Spirit, the reflection in multifarious forms of the living Principle, Love.
When St. Paul spoke of "the peace of God, which passeth all understanding," he was painting no mere word picture; he was, instead, pointing to a divinely metaphysical fact.
No one need be deprived of the stimulus and joy of an eternal purpose in everyday life. The genuine and only laws of creation are spiritual laws, established and perpetuated by one perfect creative Principle, named God.
Mary Baker Eddy's statement (The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and Miscellany, pp. 352, 353 ), "My desire is that every Christian Scientist, and as many others as possible, subscribe for and read our daily newspaper," indicates that she believed such a course was for the benefit of the Scientist quite as much as for the support of the publication.