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In the course of ordinary experience, human perspective seems to be limited to the horizon of things material. The interests of many are so restricted that their outlook does not exceed the boundaries of their neighborhood or city.

In the Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," Mary Baker Eddy has written ( p. 255 ), "'Let there be light,' is the perpetual demand of Truth and Love, changing chaos into order and discord into the music of the spheres.

Increasingly important to the Christian Scientist becomes the subject of church membership and the activities related thereto, when considered in relation to the needs of a strife-torn world seeking a solution of its complex problems. This is true because the Christian Scientist well knows that through the authorized activities of The Mother Church and its branches he is afforded the sacred privilege of sharing with others the healing and saving message of Truth revealed through Christian Science.

It is recorded by Lyman P. Powell in his book entitled "Mary Baker Eddy" that a celebrated journalist who had just returned from China, after an interview with Mrs.

In various parables Jesus emphasized the need for mortals to overcome the desire for the accumulation of material things, a mental state as common to humanity then as now, in order to gain spiritual riches, the spiritual understanding of God and His universe, and to lay hold of lasting treasure, eternal life. The rich man in the parable, whose grounds had brought forth so abundantly that his barns would no longer contain his harvest, proposed to replace his storehouses with greater ones, that he might lay up more of what he believed to be the substance necessary to his enjoyment, that is, material things.

During the Apostle Paul's residence at Corinth, news reached him which disturbed for a time the continuance of his preaching ministry in that city. The bearer of these tidings was Timothy, who arrived from Macedonia in or about the year 51 a.

Jesus regarded his works as the best evidence of the truthfulness of his claim to his divine mission. The works of Jesus are as important as his words, and both must be spiritually understood in order that there may be healing through Mind.

One hears much these days regarding enlistment and service, and rightly so, because every good cause, if it is to prosper, must have enthusiastic and conscientious enlisters. There is none more alert as to what constitutes true enlistment and consequent service thereunder than the student of Christian Science.

That ringing declaration by Paul that "we are the children of God: and if children, then heirs; heirs of God, and joint-heirs with Christ," states a demonstrable fact. When making this emphatic affirmation, Paul must have realized that it was then, and always would be, capable of proof.

That the truth, when known, spontaneously destroys a lie is a generally accepted fact. There is nothing mysterious about the direct and irresistible action of the truth; it is simply impossible for a lie about something to exist in the presence of the truth about that something.