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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.

Whether or not one is immediately confronted with a financial problem to be solved, it is vitally important that every student of Christian Science should ask himself these questions: "What is my present concept of supply? Am I still thinking that matter supplies me with the necessities of life? Or am I seeing supply as purely spiritual, limitless, without taint of materiality, emanating directly from God?" In squarely facing this question of supply and gaining the correct scientific concept thereof, one not only finds that the outward evidence of abundance in his own experience is increased, but he also is helping to lift the false burden of limited material thinking from all mankind and annulling the belief in a mind opposed to God. By healing one's sense of supply through proving that Spirit, Truth, is the only real substance, and that man reflects this infinite, divine substance, one is as definitely helping to establish the kingdom of heaven on earth as if, through obedience to the teachings of Christian Science, he had destroyed the belief in an incurable physical condition, a stubborn hereditary sin, or any other error of sense.

On a certain occasion the statement was made to Christ Jesus, "Lord, I will follow thee; but let me first go bid them farewell, which are at home at my house. " The Master rebuked the lack of steadfast adherence to the call of Truth by his inspired answer, "No man, having put his hand to the plough, and looking back, is fit for the kingdom of God.