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The redemptive character of Jesus' mission gained for him the names of Saviour and Redeemer. His thoughts expressed the Christ, or his divine nature, and therefore were saving and healing in their effects.

Three trees are figuratively portrayed in the Scriptures: one that grew in the garden of Eden, bearing two kinds of fruit—good and evil; one, as described by the Psalmist, that grew by rivers, which had leaves that did not wither, and brought forth its fruits in its season; and also "the tree of life," which appeared to St. John in a vision and which bore "twelve manner of fruits," and yielded her fruit every month.

Human education suggests that we are persons immersed in an immense material universe. Each person supposedly possesses a mind of his own.

The only Bible known to Jesus and his contemporaries was the Bible of the Hebrews, which we know as the Old Testament. In the Palestinian schools, including the synagogue school at Nazareth, which the Master doubtless attended, this Hebrew Bible was, indeed, the only textbook used, and this helps to explain not only Jesus' reverence for the Old Testament, but also his intimate acquaintance with it.

One Sabbath morning, a Christian Science Sunday School pupil, her small face radiant, said, "I know why we sing hymns. " "Why?" asked her teacher.

In the Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" ( p. 478 ), Mary Baker Eddy says that "man is coexistent with God.

Christian Science is bringing to the human consciousness an awareness of the presence of the kingdom of heaven. Christ Jesus said, "Seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you.

Nothing could be more beautiful from a spiritual point of view, or more of a rebuke to personal condemnation, than the attitude of Jesus toward the adulterous woman who was presented to him for judgment by the scribes and Pharisees. After her accusers had left, self-convicted, Jesus said, "Woman, where are those thine accusers? hath no man condemned thee?" She replied, "No man, Lord.

When turmoil, fear, and anxiety seem to prevail in the affairs of men and nations, when selfishness and self-will seek to enthrone themselves in high places, and when error attempts to exalt itself above the power of good, Christian Scientists, as citizens of the world, should be awake to the necessity of dealing with these problems in a divinely metaphysical way in order that wisdom, justice, and right may prevail. In facing any problem—individual, civic, national, or international —the Christian Scientist stands firm in his enlightened understanding of God's omnipotence and omnipresence.

In his first epistle, John, the beloved disciple, makes the following significant statement: "Beloved, now are we the sons of God. " What glorious freedom comes with the realization that here and now we are the sons of God, heirs to all good! Man, the image and likeness, or reflection, of God, can no more be separated from God, good, than can the sun's rays be separated from the sun.