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Only a brief perusal of the writings of Mary Baker Eddy usually is requisite to convince the earnest reader that Christian Science is based on divine Principle, which is perfect Love. Perfect Love is not represented by that human sense of love revolving around material belief in persons, places, and things, and involving numerous personal likes and dislikes.

The awakening to true being includes conscious identification with that "I" which dwells with the Father; this is the vital step in the line of spiritual progress. Of her own taking of this step our Leader, Mary Baker Eddy, has written in her brief autobiography, "Retrospection and Introspection," under the heading "Emergence into Light" ( p.

In a time when greed, cruelty, tyranny, and strife for place and power seem to dominate the affairs of mankind, it is well frequently to remind ourselves that though we seek to build to the skies, the building can have neither value nor permanence unless founded on the qualities of God—honesty, justice, integrity, and brotherly love. The Psalmist voiced a great and eternal truth when he said, "Except the Lord build the house, they labour in vain that build it: except the Lord keep the city, the watchman waketh but in vain.

In a newspaper interview reproduced on page 344 of her book, The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and Miscellany, Mary Baker Eddy is quoted as declaring that the Soul of man is "God preserving individuality and personality to the end. " This utterance may be regarded as a statement of absolute truth, having application, as all pure Science has, to humanity.

According to the early Christian writer Irenæus, Mark was "the disciple and interpreter of Peter," from whom he seems to have gained the greater part of the information which he so vividly sets forth in the earliest of our four Gospels; while, writing in the second century, Justin Martyr goes so far as to describe Mark's Gospel as "the memoirs of Peter. " In view of the fact that Mark saw little, if anything, of Jesus' ministry, it was but natural that when he came to prepare a Gospel, he should thus turn for aid to his revered teacher, Peter.

Out of the present chaotic conditions is heard the question, "Where are peace and safety to be sought?" A complete and satisfying answer to this question is to be found in Christian Science, which reveals God as divine, omnipresent Love, who, being of "purer eyes that to behold evil," knows no element that can result in sin, sickness, or death. Then follows the question, "If this is true, whence cometh evil?" Since it is not embraced in the infinite, omnipotent God, it is an erroneous sense of God and of man's relationship to Him.

Christ Jesus stated a great fact when he replied to the young man who called him, "Good Master," "Why callest thou me good? there is none good but one, that is, God. " From a human standpoint, Jesus surely had a right to be called good.

" I am the Lord thy God, which have brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage. Thou shalt have no other gods before me.

In the fifth chapter of the Gospel of Luke is recorded a vital experience which has been a source of inspiration to many Bible students. The command of Christ Jesus, "Launch out into the deep, and let down your nets for a draught," was given to Simon at a time when discouragement, fruitless toil, and failure probably were clamoring for recognition in the thoughts of the fishermen.

Writing to the church at Philippi, Paul spoke of some "who mind earthly things," and he continued by saying, "Our citizenship is in heaven" (American Standard Version). From this passage of Scripture we know that our citizenship is not material, for we live in "a city which hath foundations, whose builder and maker is God.