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COUNTLESS are those who have experienced healing of both sin and disease through the power of Christian Science. Many of these healings, though in some instances the maladies had been pronounced incurable by prominent medical practitioners, were instantaneous.

THE life story of Christ Jesus, as set forth in the four Gospels, contains conclusive proof of the unreality of evil, of error masquerading in its ever-changing variety of forms. He proved its nothingness, its unstable character, in the most effective manner: he destroyed it.

As told in the third chapter of John's Gospel, Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews, a man representing the temporal power of his day, came at night to Christ Jesus, the meek and mighty Teacher—mighty because more than all those who had preceded him he demonstrated the all-might of Spirit, God. Was it hesitancy to acknowledge a power above that of his own position that led Nicodemus to come to the great Master by night? Was it fear of what friends or co-religionists might think if he came openly to the one who taught the true religion of love in place of dogma, form, and bigotry, that made him come alone and in the cloak of darkness? Or were there in Nicodemus' thinking mistiness and doubt, a dim realization of the impotence and insubstantiality of material place and power? His salutation indicated an acknowledgment of the spiritual power manifested by the great Teacher, for he said, "Rabbi, we know that thou art a teacher come from God: for no man can do these miracles that thou doest, except God be with him.

Thoreau wrote, "Only that day dawns to which we are awake. " Many of us may at times have groped blindly in the darkness, until some light appeared to give us instant confidence.

Every so-called problem might be said to be one of lack. One individual seems to lack health, another supply, another happiness, another normal eyesight or hearing, and so on.

Christian Science brings peace and satisfaction to those who understand and sincerely apply its truths. Unrest and dissatisfaction are stilled in the revealing illumination of God's tender care for all His children.

Our beloved Leader, Mary Baker Eddy, writes in the Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" (pp. 390, 391) , "Rise in the conscious strength of the spirit of Truth to overthrow the plea of mortal mind, alias matter, arrayed against the supremacy of Spirit.

" Your decisions will master you," writes Mary Baker Eddy, the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, on page 392 of her textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures. " The truth of this statement is verified in the ordinary experiences of daily life, as well as in the exigencies of world affairs.

The experiences of the children of Israel, especially those recounted in Exodus and Joshua, are of particular interest to the student of Christian Science. These experiences illustrate the mental states of a Christian Scientist in his journey out of material beliefs into the promised land of harmony.

To one who understands the rule the solving of a mathematical problem presents no terror or difficulty. Such a person approaches his task with the calm assurance of scientific knowledge.