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The inspired Revelator, referring to Christ Jesus, writes, "Unto him that loved us, and washed us from our sins in his own blood, and hath made us kings and priests unto God and his Father; to him be glory and dominion for ever and ever. Amen.

The Psalmist declared, "Blessed is the man" whose "delight is in the law of the Lord; .

Christian Science , through its healing ministrations, is bestowing good on the whole human race. Particular individuals may be the primary beneficiaries, but the good conferred is not confined to these alone.

" There are no greater miracles known to earth than perfection and an unbroken friendship," writes Mary Baker Eddy on page 80 of her book entitled "Retrospection and Introspection. " It is significant that Mrs.

Webster defines the word "attain," in part, as to reach, to gain, to accomplish. Mary Baker Eddy uses the word "attainment" many times in her writings, and almost exclusively with the higher signification as of victory over the flesh, over mortality, mortal mind laws, theories, human tendencies, and mental suggestion.

After her discovery of Christian Science, Mary Baker Eddy was divinely directed to proclaim the truth to mankind. Therefore, about the year 1867 she opened the first school of Christian Science Mind-healing, in Lynn, Massachusetts, with a single student.

In the first chapter of St. John's Gospel it is written, "The law was given by Moses, but grace and truth came by Jesus Christ.

Christianity made practical will save men from the effects of crime and reconstruct the wrongdoer into a right thinker. For example, a case of healing was once reported in The Mother Church.

During the course of his famous address given on the summit of Mars' Hill at Athens, the Apostle Paul, wisely fastening upon the elements of truth to be found in the religion or philosophy of his audience, affirmed that in God "we live, and move, and have our being; as certain also of your own poets have said, For we are also his offspring" ( Acts 17:28 ). This passage of itself is sufficient to suggest that in the thought of the apostle there were non-Christian writings current in the Graeco-Roman world which paved the way for the gospel which he preached.

Mankind's only true resource is a correct understanding of God and of His spiritual idea, the Christ. Mary Baker Eddy writes in "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" ( p.