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The truth about God and man's relationship to Him cannot be discerned by material sense, but is revealed to spiritual understanding. Mary Baker Eddy, the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, speaks of her own spiritual experience where she says ( Retrospection and Introspection, p.

The words of Isaiah, "Comfort ye, comfort ye my people, saith your God," find a response in the poem quoted by Mary Baker Eddy in her book "Retrospection and Introspection" ( p. 95 ): "Ask God to give thee skill In comfort's art: That thou may'st consecrated be And set apart Unto a life of sympathy.

In Revelation we read, "And he shewed me a pure river of water of life, clear as crystal, proceeding out of the throne of God and of the Lamb;" and in "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," Mary Baker Eddy, the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, defines "river" on page 593 as, "Channel of thought. " She further says, "When smooth and unobstructed, it typifies the course of Truth; but muddy, foaming, and dashing, it is a type of error.

On page 410 of the Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," Mary Baker Eddy writes: "The Apostle John says: 'There is no fear in Love, but perfect Love casteth out fear.

In the light which Christian Science is shedding upon all human problems today through its spiritual interpretation of the Scriptures we realize, as never before, the importance of knowing how to pray aright. Christ Jesus, our great Exemplar, gave to the world a new way of living, based upon prayer and demonstration.

One of the highly important things we learn in the study of Christian Science is the necessity of a constant endeavor to discipline our thinking, in order to conform it to the pattern which Christ Jesus gave to all men that they might attain to freedom from the laws of sin, disease, and death. Indicating the importance of right thinking, Mary Baker Eddy writes in the Christian Science textbook, ''Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" ( p.

God's children are spiritual ideas, holy, harmonious, immortal, reflecting the one infinite divine Principle, Love. They express the unlimited beauty, perfection, and power of Spirit; and at this exalted standpoint they are sustained and maintained by Spirit.

During a trip through beautiful northern California in the springtime, a party of motorists stopped beside a wide, green meadow to repair a tire. While this work was being done, a young mother and her little boy wandered down the road gathering wild flowers.

What is encouragement? Is it based on belief in the fleeting and changeable, or on an understanding of the facts of the eternal and changeless? Have any found enduring encouragement in anything that works on the so-called material emotions? Have any failed to find encouragement in the true understanding of God, perfect substance, and of man, God's idea? Christian Science invites consideration of these questions, knowing that the opposite of encouragement is mentally wrong, and, like all that is different from God, may be readily overcome by the seeking and accepting of divine reality. A common error with many, including the professed followers of Christ, is that of limited expectation of good from Christ's Christianity.

The textbook of Christian Science, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," written by Mary Baker Eddy, its Discoverer and Founder, states in full the teachings of Christian Science. The student of this book soon realizes that the truth of spiritual existence is therein revealed.