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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.

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.