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The knowledge that the teachings and rules of Christian Science are applicable in business affairs is one of the great blessings this teaching brings to business men. Contrary to the belief held by some people that Christian Science is theoretical and visionary is the fact that it is entirely practical and usable by all.

Christian Science is the "new tongue" spoken of in the Bible, and it requires inspiration and consecration' to understand it aright. The reason for this is that the language of Spirit is the Word of God, and "the Word," John said, "was with God, and the Word was God.

The wonderful promises given in the ninety-first Psalm are filled with hope for people of all times, and particularly today are they of inestimable value to those whose loved ones are drawn into military service, or who themselves are facing the dangers of war with, in some cases, apparently little hope of material aid or protection. That these promises have definite protective value there is no doubt, for they have stood the test of centuries.

If we would identify man and the universe, we must learn to turn to the Scriptures for divine wisdom and the truth of being. In the first chapter of St.

Despite denominational differences in ritual and dogma, the omniscience, omnipresence, and omnipotence of God are fundamental in Christian theism. Christian Science not only teaches the omniscience, omnipresence, and omnipotence of God, but unreservedly practices it.

Throughout the Bible from the account of creation in the first chapter of Genesis to the description of the holy city given in Revelation, we find frequent reference to and description of God's kingdom, or the kingdom of heaven. For centuries men have been taught that the account in the first chapter of Genesis refers to the creation of the material world, and that the holy city, as described in Revelation, is a place called heaven in some remote, unknown locality where mortals go after they have passed through the transition called death.

One who is alert, calm, poised, and resourceful, irrespective of how urgent or portentous the pending problem seems to be, is said to have "presence of mind. " He says and does the right thing at the right time.

The invisible Church of the living God, the real Church, is of necessity spiritual. Mary Baker Eddy defines "Church," in part, in "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" ( p.

" Art thou the King of the Jews?" A Pilate's momentous question to Jesus in the judgment hall at Jerusalem as the latter awaited the fateful decision of his enemies called forth from the discerning consciousness of the great Nazarene the counter-question, "Sayest thou this thing of thyself, or did others tell it thee of me?" It was as if the Master, perceiving the governor's hesitation and unwillingness to condemn him, sought to arouse in him a moral courage capable of resisting the clamor of the populace; and perhaps even more did he seek to awaken him to the spiritual truths which it was Jesus' mission as the Messiah to reveal, both by his original utterances and by his demonstration of divine law. At this supreme moment of his earthly career Jesus stood at the bar of human judgment, a judgment devoid of justice, influenced and inflamed by bitter hatred, fear, and ecclesiastical jealousy, and administered by one prepared to compromise Principle for popularity.

It is self-evident in the light of Christian Science that nothing can exist except as the product or creation of a self-existent creator. Deity alone is eternally self-existent, the one primal, infinite causation, without an opposite or an equal.