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" 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.

Just as the coming of dawn dispels the darkness of night, and in its place all becomes flooded with light, just so the errors of material sense—sin, disease, sorrow, limitation, aggression—are swept away as the true sense of the Christ, Truth, dawns upon the human consciousness. There is no darkness in the presence of light.

There is only one way to heaven, and that is the way which our Master showed us, and which Christian Science enables us to demonstrate. The straight and narrow way is the one approved of God.

Into a land torn with human strife came the babe Jesus, he who was to bring to the world the light which, by revealing man's true nature as the son and heir of God, was to rouse the elements of evil to their limit, and finally to their self-destruction. Impersonal evil, as manifested in Herod, fearing for its own safety, recognized in the birth of Jesus the challenge of a superior power, and would have caused the babe to be slain, had not the spiritually-minded Mary and Joseph received from God a warning of this cruel intent.

The sacred Scriptures contain statements which clearly reveal the indisputable fact that God is Spirit, and that omnipotent, omnipresent Spirit is the only real cause, the origin, source, or divine Principle from which emanates all that actually exists. In the Gospel according to John is the definite pronouncement, without the slightest ambiguity, that everything that was created was made by God, Spirit, the divine Word.

Every earnest student of Christian Science desires to progress in the demonstration of this Science. But sometimes, while we proclaim man's perfection and seek identity therewith, we still persist in clinging to material concepts, to finite personal beliefs about ourselves and others.