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In the first chapter of Genesis we read, "And God said, Let there be light: and there was light;" and we further read: "God divided the light from the darkness. And God called the light Day.

Students of Christian Science. when working on a problem, are sometimes told by a friend or practitioner,"You should love more.

For many people, the first healing which they experienced in Christian Science came with a flood of light. They were carried from a dark valley to the mountaintop, where all things had become new.

Every branch of The Mother Church, The First Church of Christ, Scientist, in Boston, Massachusetts, at some time or other, faces the problem of providing a suitable and representative church building in which to hold services. Those who are privileged to take active part in this progressive step should rejoice, because church building provides them with an opportunity for much spiritual unfoldment and mental growth.

On page xi of the Preface to the Christian Science textbook,"Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," Mary Baker Eddy writes, "When God called the author to proclaim His Gospel to this age, there came also the charge to plant and water His vineyard. " Mrs.

Paul says,"None of us liveth to himself. " Human life involves constant association with others.

Our Leader, Mary Baker Eddy, has given us many valuable statements concerning the application of Christian Science to human problems. One of these is on page 242 of "The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and Miscellany," and reads: "Christian Science is absolute; it is neither behind the point of perfection nor advancing towards it; it is at this point and must be practised therefrom.

Christian Science is essentially a religion of healing, but not merely healing of physical disease, for its ultimate mission is that of destroying sin, the wrong thinking, of individuals, and hence of all mankind. The teachings of this divine Science are based on those of the great Master and Way-shower, Christ Jesus, and its healing methods are the same as those he practiced in his ministry among men.

Jesus came revealing the truth about God and man and demonstrating the way of redemption for mankind. He well knew that the man of God's creating needs no salvation.

Christ Jesus understood and steadfastly relied upon the spiritual truth revealed in the older Scriptures. He advised his hearers to study them.