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It is good to know that Christians generally are learning to love and trust God more fully. This is in large measure because Christian Science is becoming increasingly understood and demonstrated.

Christ Jesus said, "I and my Father are one. " As did our Master, so must every Christian Scientist relinquish the sense of a selfhood apart from God, of a mind distinct from the one Mind.

Although equipollence is a term used but once in all the published works of Mary Baker Eddy, the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, its significance is so great as to bring healing and protection to all who even faintly grasp its true spiritual import. The definition of this term as found in Webster's dictionary, however, leaves much to be desired as far as the student of Christian Science is concerned.

On one of the outside walls of The Christian Science Publishing Society is inscribed in large bold letters this text from the sixty-eighth Psalm: "The Lord gave the word: great was the company of those that published it. " The vigilant member of The Mother Church, The First Church of Christ, Scientist, in Boston, Massachusetts, never fails to remember that, proportionably to his active practice of Christian Science in all his daily affairs and duties, he constitutes himself a successful publisher of the Word of God, for his systematic exercise of the teachings of Mary Baker Eddy makes public, divulges, proclaims the good news of Christ to all the world in spiritual healing.

The Old Testament begins with one of the most profound and comprehensive statements ever made to mankind: "In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. " From a scientific standpoint, the word "beginning" can be applied to God Himself, for God is Principle, one definition of which is "beginning.

All over the world, without warning and apparently without having done anything themselves particularly to deserve it, men and women are faced with difficult, almost unthinkable situations. Many of them declare with stout hearts, and perhaps some human pride, "We can take it.

While he was gathering material for his book, "Mary Baker Eddy: A Life Size Portrait," Lyman P. Powell had an opportunity to meet and observe many Christian Scientists at work.

In the illustrated poem by Mary Baker Eddy entitled "Christ and Christmas" is a picture called "Seeking and Finding. " It portrays a woman seated at a table reading the Holy Bible.

The age-old conflict between the so-called forces of personal domination and the recognition of divine Principle as the only true source of power was probably never more simply illustrated than in the case of Jotham's parable. As the story unfolds in the book of Judges, Gideon, acting under divine guidance, had won a great victory over the marauding Midianites.

The subject of church building and dedication is one of deep interest to students of Christian Science. We are all builders.