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In the illumination following his first healing after coming into Christian Science, many a student eagerly sets out to advance himself and help others to advance in the love of good. With joy, and in deep gratitude for this wonderful truth, he feels the glow of heavenly warmth and pure vision, and in this exalted mental state he enters enthusiastically into the work of spreading the gospel of good.

The earnest student of Christian Science keeps uppermost in thought the necessity of working out his own salvation. He early learns that salvation from sin, sickness, and death must be an individual experience.

The Apostle Paul says in his letter to the Ephesians, "There is one body, and one Spirit, .

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.