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Only through the light which Christian Science throws on the Scriptures can the importance and the value of patient waiting be understood and appreciated. The Apostle Paul said, "If we hope for that we see not, then do we with patience wait for it.

To those who, in the words of Isaiah, are "afflicted, tossed with tempest, and not comforted," Christian Science comes with its wondrous message of healing and salvation. It brings with it the sovereign remedy for sin, disease, discord, and distress.

" And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God," stoutly declared the Apostle Paul from the vantage ground of wide experience in applying the teachings of the law, as well as the words of Christ Jesus, to the solution of the manifold perplexities and needs of mankind. Repeatedly did this profound thinker and brilliant scholar behold righteousness rise victorious after seeming defeat, health assert itself master over sickness and disease, the truth of eternal life vanquish the belief in death, the exercise of practical goodness free the sinenslaved, the alchemy of holiness cause the machinations of evil to bring about their own undoing—in short, the working together of all things for the establishment of good in the experience of those who sought to think and live in accordance with the law of Truth and Love.

In the reformation inaugurated by Christian Science, Mary Baker Eddy was careful to trust to healing rather than to controversy. Progress was achieved more by betterments than by battles.

It is now widely accepted that while Matthew wrote primarily for the Jews, Mark for the Romans, and Luke for the Greeks, John's more developed, less provincial thought led him to write the fourth Gospel for the benefit of the church as a whole. The breadth and scope of John's vision are suggested in the opening words of his Gospel, which at once take us back beyond the narrow limits of time and space to the beginning of all things: "In the beginning was the Word"—and he forthwith proceeds to identify Christ Jesus with this Logos or "Word" of God; whereas Matthew and Luke had chosen to record the human aspect of the Master's lineage.

In a strange city, among new acquaintances, a young student of Christian Science found comfort in observing a lovely little willow tree across the street from her home. She enjoyed its dainty dignity, its flexibility and grace.

All that ever has been or ever can be is now, in the realm of the real. Students of Christian Science are growing in the understanding that God's work is complete, and that it is good.

What a blessing we receive when we discern Life as God, good, and man as God's reflection! In the kaleidoscope of human life, multifarious manifestations of evil present false pictures to us. Sin, disease, disaster, death, seem real to mortal sense, but Christian Science shows them to be deceptive illusions, or untrue suggestions of mortal mind, not ideas or facts of true existence.

The author notes that seeing “God as the only source of good brings freedom and expansion of abilities impossible to a personal sense of goodness.”

On page 102 of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" Mary Baker Eddy, the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, makes this arresting and conclusive statement: "There is but one real attraction, that of Spirit. The pointing of the needle to the pole symbolizes this all-embracing power or the attraction of God, divine Mind.