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The life and works of Christ Jesus exemplified divine energy as applied in human experience. Knowing that the divine power of God, Mind, Spirit, Soul, could be manifested only in perfect healing and redemptive work, Jesus, by his complete reliance on God, was enabled to perform the many wonderful healings recorded of him in the Gospels.

The Apostle Jemes writes, "Let no man say when he is tempted, I am tempted of God: for God cannot be tempted with evil, neither tempteth he any man. " He had previously written, "My brethren, count it all joy when ye fall into divers temptations.

"Loving Father, we Thy children Look to Thee in fear's dark night While the angels of Thy presence Guide us upward to the light. " In the ninety-first Psalm the Psalmist rejoices in God's protecting care over those who put their trust in Him: "He shall give his angels charge over thee, to keep thee in all thy ways.

Down through the centuries, false religious teaching has played a major part in obstructing and hindering the progress of the race and the freedom of men. Incorrect concepts of God and man are responsible for our difficulties, and only clear scientific thinking will liberate us.

When Christ Jesus declared to his disciples, "Ye are the light of the world," he was not speaking to an extraordinary group of people, but to a group of simple men, engaged in ordinary vocations, whose only claim to distinction was that they had recognized the Christ which Jesus revealed and manifested, and had left all to follow him. The disciples made many mistakes; they often failed to understand their Master's teachings, but Jesus patiently taught, rebuked, and many times forgave them; and he said to them, "Ye are the light of the world.

The first three books of our New Testament are commonly described as the Synoptic Gospels. One reason for the choice of this particular title is that each of them presents a brief summary or "synopsis" of the events of the Master's life; while the fourth Gospel is excluded from this grouping, largely because its author is concerned with teaching rather than with narrative.

The wisdom and clarity of thought manifested in the answers to questions sent to Mrs. Eddy during the early years of Christian Science, as they appear in "Miscellaneous Writings," deeply impress every reader.

A Vivid Scriptural example of spiritually mental healing is that which concerns the prophet Jonah. God had sent him to Nineveh to warn the people to forsake their wickedness, but instead of obeying, Jonah fled from his allotted task on a ship going to Tarshish.

When Jesus made the statement, "Before Abraham was, I am," he proclaimed the truth of ageless existence, of life without beginning. He set forth the fact of spiritual man as eternal, incorporeal, forever intact and indestructible.

" Cherish humility, 'watch,' and 'pray without ceasing,' or you will miss the way of Truth and Love," writes Mary Baker Eddy, the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, on page 356 of "Miscellaneous Writings. " The alert student of Christian Science is prayerfully striving to render full obedience to this loving admonition from our Leader, and to claim and to cultivate the grace of humility, so essential to the demonstration of Christianly scientific Mind-healing.