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Without question all human troubles, limitations, and fears arise from a sense of separation from God, from the belief that man is mortal and material, having a mind of his own, being the arbiter of his own destiny, or else being subject to environment or material laws over which he can have little or no control. Yet Christ Jesus taught that man has no existence apart from God.

Doubtless many Christian Science practitioners and teachers in Christian Science Sunday Schools have been asked, by patients and pupils, what Mrs. Eddy meant by certain passages in "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" or in her other books.

In the illumination following his first healing after coming into Christian Science, many a student eagerly sets out to advance himself and help others to advance in the love of good. With joy, and in deep gratitude for this wonderful truth, he feels the glow of heavenly warmth and pure vision, and in this exalted mental state he enters enthusiastically into the work of spreading the gospel of good.

The earnest student of Christian Science keeps uppermost in thought the necessity of working out his own salvation. He early learns that salvation from sin, sickness, and death must be an individual experience.

The Apostle Paul says in his letter to the Ephesians, "There is one body, and one Spirit, .

The fact that God is Spirit was stated by Christ Jesus. And in "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" Mary Baker Eddy writes ( p.

" God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth. " True prayer is a hungering desire to know and do the Father's will.

On the twenty-fifth day of November, 1908, Mrs. Eddy launched The Christian Science Monitor.

If everyone were apprised of the fact that there exists a chart with definite, unmistakable directions, which when followed, cannot fail to bring into the experience of the user an overflowing abundance of good, it would seem that there would be a general and concerted effort on the part of all to obtain this chart and to adopt its plan. Yet, while just such an unfailing chart has been and is right now in existence, and is free for all to take and use, it is not generally accepted, and but comparatively few take note and follow faithfully its directions.

There is an answer of encouragement and healing to the human cries of distress that seem to arise from so many parts of the world today. The answer is found in the teachings of Christian Science.