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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.

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.