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Centuries ago Jesus of Nazareth demonstrated the Christ as God's idea, revealing the immediate remedy for every human" need. Mary Baker Eddy, who discovered the Science of Spirit, the only substance, and shared her divinely inspired knowledge in her writings, says (The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and Miscellany,   p.

That man lives by divine decree is evidenced in the fact that the three great periods of spiritual revelation in human history—the moral, the Christian, and the scientific— have been the eras in which God unveiled His law to mankind. This points to the fact that the real man, God's image, expresses law and embodies it, for true manhood has appeared only as law has unfolded.

The term "protestantism" is today taking on a far more vital and practical significance. In fact, a new and purer concept of protestantism was born in the latter half of the nineteenth century when, through the discovery of Christian Science by Mary Baker Eddy, a clearer spiritual light was shed upon the Scriptures.

According to the early usage of the English language, to ward was to keep watch over, to hold in safety, to protect. A warden is one who keeps guard, one who is a watchman, or according to the dictionaries, "specifically a gate keeper.

In this time of world turbulence Christians, generally, are turning with renewed interest to the study of the words and works of Christ Jesus. The search is inspired by the hope and expectancy that in the stress of events so rapidly unfolding there may be gained some new light, some new remedy for the ills of humanity.

From the beginning of history men have striven to attain their highest concept of a more abundant life. Beholding the present world debacle and seeing the futility of their attempt to realize security and satisfaction in material things or ways, many are now searching for such values as will confidently lead to a more stable sense of abundance, security, and peace.

In the Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," Mary Baker Eddy writes ( p. 124 ): "Adhesion, cohesion, and attraction are properties of Mind.

The demand of today is the demand of Truth as voiced to Joshua: "Be strong and of a good courage; be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed: for the Lord thy God is with thee whithersoever thou goest. " It is the call of spiritual alertness, the calm, undaunted mindfulness of God's omnipresence, a marshaling of the fundamental and invincible resources of thought and character that acknowledge man and the universe as existing in unassailed freedom and peace to express and glorify God.

God , good, is All. There is no error or evil in real being.

While most of us are familiar with the story of Lot's wife, are we all sufficiently aware of its vital significance? Do we accept the lesson that it teaches and heed it in our daily living? Christ Jesus constantly reminded his disciples of the different events that are recorded in Scriptural history, quoting again and again from the Old Testament in his sermons and conversations. He well knew the lessons that were to be learned from these experiences, the spiritual awakening that would take place because of them, and he knew mankind's need of those lessons and that awakening.