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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.

Concisely defining the Christian Science treatment, one may call it the utilization of God's power. It is the affirmation of that which is divinely true and real, and the denial of that which is humanly untrue and unreal.

Christian Science teaches that true individuality reveals man because it reflects and expresses God, whereas the false sense of personality conceals the individuality it counterfeits. The perpetuity of individual being is a necessary corollary of immortality.

The evangelist Luke appears to have been somewhat at a disadvantage as compared with the other three Gospel writers, at least to this extent, that he was not a personal disciple of the Master, and does not seem to have been in intimate contact with one of the original apostles, as was Mark. On the other hand, a careful study of Luke's Gospel and of the book of Acts, shows the writer to have been a historian of marked ability.

Mrs. Eddy was fully aware of the necessity of proving that the Science she had discovered would relieve humanity of its burden of sin and disease.

A glorious account of the pioneers of spiritual truth is given us in the Bible. Abraham, who was called to leave his country and kindred, is followed by Isaac, Jacob, Joseph, Moses, and Joshua, all of whom were courageous, successful pioneers, having made new discoveries concerning the power of God; and they left the world greatly enriched in righteousness.

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.