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Financial contributions, as everyone knows, are necessary for the maintenance of a Christian Science church. However, there are other methods of unselfish giving and support that are essential to its welfare and prosperity.

Under the marginal topic "Mind's ideas faultless," Mary Baker Eddy, the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, in a brief statement in her textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," declares (p. 503) , "God creates neither erring thought, mortal life, mutable truth, nor variable love.

Mary Baker Eddy , the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, writes in the Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" ( p. 312 ), "Our theories are based on finite premises, which cannot penetrate beyond matter.

The Science of God, divine Love, reveals His universe of light, beauty, and joy. This Science was discovered through the purified consciousness of one Christlike woman, Mary Baker Eddy, for whose great gift to humanity our songs rise in praise and gratitude.

The preservation of freedom, the defense of liberty, the rights of the individual—these are subjects which are today occupying the time and attention of millions of men and women. Many of them have been roused for the first time to value and appreciate the freedom and enlightenment that have come to them as legacies from their forefathers.

Throughout untold centuries, the children of men have been the hapless victims of illusions, unenlightenment, misrepresentation, ignorance, and fear. All too frequently mankind accepts without question the belief that whatever the material senses cognize, is actually true and real.

Inherent in the human consciousness is the deep and abiding conviction that the Scriptural assurance of man's dominion over the earth must at some time and in some way reach fulfillment. The fact that men and women have instinctively resisted evil and have felt that the adverse conditions in human experience should be subject to correction bears witness to the wholly illegitimate nature of all evil.

It is undoubtedly the sincere desire of all those who have acknowledged the name of Christ in its healing, saving sense to gain heights of greater understanding and quicker demonstration in the sacred ministry of Truth. What is this name of Christ, or Messiah, which has held so supreme a place in the hearts and lives of Godlike men? What is it but the manifestation of divine reality? It has been believed that the Christ came with the appearing of Jesus and left with his disappearing, but Christian Science has brought to light the true meaning of Christ, defined by Mary Baker Eddy in " Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" (p.

We read in the first chapter of Genesis that "God saw every thing that he had made, and, behold, it was very good. " This creation of God's, then, contains no element of error or evil; it contains nothing unlike Himself, but throughout partakes of the nature of the creative Principle, God.

The Apostle James exhorted his brethren, "Let patience have her perfect work, that ye may be perfect and entire, wanting nothing. " What a rarity is a person who wants nothing! It seems to be the nature of mortal man to feel limited, incomplete, and insecure.