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All students of Christian Science have much to learn from the example of the centurion who many years ago, according to the Gospel story, sought the Master and pleaded with him to heal his servant, humbly saying: "Lord, I am not worthy that thou shouldest come under my roof: but speak the word only, and my servant shall be healed. For I am a man under authority, having soldiers under me: and I say to this man.

One who for many years has been a student of Christian Science and has experienced many healings and much good as a result, when first attracted to this subject was told that Christian Science teaches and proves that God is Love; that He is infinite, ever-present divine Love, caring for, protecting, supplying, and healing all who turn to Him for help; and that man is created in God's image and likeness, existing eternally as His idea, reflecting and expressing God's qualities and attributes. Incredulous and doubting, but interested, he slowly took up the study of the Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy.

Numbers in the world today have come to accept the healing power of Christian Science without question, and many also are turning to this Science for the healing of sick businesses. For them the popular rules in business upon which people have relied are being proved to be as houses built "upon the sand," and in their place the rules expressive of omnipotent Principle are being recognized.

The Bible records the successes of those who chose to trust in God and proved His power. God told Moses to return and take up the serpent when he fled before it.

After Mary Baker Eddy discovered Christian Science she devoted years of the most patient work to testing and proving its efficacy in the healing of all manner of evil. Sickness, disease, sin, sorrow, and lack yielded to the healing power of God through her unfolding spiritual understanding of the Science she discovered.

" Oh that I had wings like a dove! for then would I fly away, and be at rest. " The Psalmist here expressed a desire men sometimes feel for a way of escape, a refuge.

In the 1908 edition of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" Mary Baker Eddy added a paragraph at the end of the chapter, "Christian Science Practice," which she considered of sufficient importance to have it brought to the special attention of her followers through a notice in the Christian Science Sentinel, asking them to give it their daily consideration. ( See The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and Miscellany, p.

Christian Scientists have received so many blessings from the study of the Bible in connection with the Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy, that they are eager to help others gain an understanding of practical Christianity. They especially rejoice that Mrs.

On page 462 of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" Mary Baker Eddy, the beloved Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, asks the pertinent question which has puzzled the thinkers of the ages: "Are thoughts divine or human? That is the important question. " True psychology, or Christian Science, teaches that God, divine Mind, is the source of real thoughts, divine ideas.

What can I do? This is a question men and women all over the world are asking today: What can I do to help in these times of national and international crisis? There is no limit to what each one of us can do. No person, community, or country is exempt from the responsibility of constructive doing; and constructive doing, whether individual or collective, is based upon constructive thinking.