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Thought the light that Christian Science has thrown upon the Scriptures, seekers for Truth, those striving to work out their human problems in the way of God's appointing, are demonstrating as never before a fuller measure of health, happiness, harmony, and abundance. God's command, "Let there be light," may be taken as the basis of our prayer, which covers every human need.

In the Gospel of Mark there is related the story of a woman who had suffered with an issue of blood twelve years, and had spent all that she possessed, yet continued to grow worse. The narrative goes on to tell us that when the woman heard of Jesus she came in the throng that followed him, intent upon being helped; she felt that if she could but touch his garment she would be restored to health.

" The Church, more than any other institution, at present is the cement of society, and it should be the bulwark of civil and religious liberty. " So writes Mary Baker Eddy on pages 144 and 145 of "Miscellaneous Writings.

"God has built a higher platform of human rights, and He has built it on diviner claims. " These arresting words by Mary Baker Eddy on page 226 of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" are followed by another remarkable statement: "These claims are not made through code or creed, but in demonstration of 'on earth peace, goodwill toward men.

To the children of Israel, Moses said, "I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing: therefore choose life, that both thou and thy seed may live. " Today this choice is before each individual, and everyone, whether consciously or unconsciously, chooses what he believes to be life.

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.