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On page 561 of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy we read that "John saw the human and divine coincidence, shown in the man Jesus, as divinity embracing humanity in Life and its demonstration. — reducing to human perception and understanding the Life which is God.

The Apostle Paul seems to have written no fewer than four letters to the Corinthian church, which was in dire need of his counsel and support. The earliest of these letters is mentioned in I Corinthians 5:9, where Paul refers to an epistle which he had previously sent them with reference to immoral practices within the church, and scholars feel that two brief fragments of it are now preserved in I Corinthians 6:12-20 and II Corinthians 6:14 to 7:1, passages in which the apostle pointedly reminds them that they are "the temple of the living God" and that their "body is the temple of the Holy Ghost.

In the Gospels of Matthew and Mark we find Jesus' first recorded words, "The kingdom of heaven is at hand," and, "The kingdom of God is at hand. " This message is surely the keynote to all that he said and did.

How deeply prized by the Christian Scientist are the sacred experiences which mark and impel his progress heavenward! For demonstration is the inevitable reward and consistent proof of spiritual understanding, obedience, and perception of the real. It is the self-evident victories over disease, sorrow, and sin which most often impress the sincere inquirer, and rouse the interest of those who appear indifferent to Truth.

A City is naturally thought of as a place where people have come together to dwell. Through the study of the Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy, we find, however, that man does not really live in a material body or in a material city.

The overcoming of Goliath by David will ever be an inspiring example of an abounding trust in God put into action, with its great and lasting reward. The account, as related in I Samuel, depicts the armies of Israel set in defense against the aggressive Philistines.

When speaking of some of the first impressions which the discovery of Christian Science made upon her thought, Mary Baker Eddy says in "Retrospection and Introspection" ( p. 31 ), "My heart bent low before the omnipotence of Spirit, and a tint of humility, soft as the heart of a moonbeam, mantled the earth.

" Discerning the rights of man, we cannot fail to foresee the doom of all oppression. " This inspiring statement by Mary Baker Eddy on page 227 of the Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," carries the encouragement that surely there is a way to overcome limitations and impositions of present experience.

Few there must be in the Christian world who have not studied at some time or other the Scriptural account of the temptation of Jesus in the wilderness, and it is cause for gratitude that we are able, through the discovery of the Science of Christ by Mary Baker Eddy, to realize the great importance of this experience and the lesson which it holds for mankind. The word "wilderness" generally indicates a waste and dreary place, devoid of cultivation.

Mary Baker Eddy, the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, defines "Christ" as "the divine manifestation of God. which comes to the flesh to destroy incarnate error" (Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, p.