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CHRISTIAN SCIENCE is the Science of divine, immaculate, eternal being. It is the Science of the creator and His creation.

BE ye holy; for I am holy," is the command of God recorded by Moses and authoritatively reiterated by the Apostle Peter. This divine edict is God's direct statement to man of the glorious fact of his being, related in the first chapter of Genesis, that man is the image and likeness of God.

THERE is a biographical sketch of King Solomon in the third chapter of I Kings which portrays with masterly touches the relationship between Solomon's reign and certain qualities of thought which he expressed. "And Solomon loved the Lord," the story begins.

CHRISTIAN SCIENCE teaches that sin punishes itself, and that belief in punishment ceases when the belief in sin is destroyed. And it also teaches that sin which has been acknowledged, repented of, and forsaken, has no longer power over one.

IN "Miscellaneous Writings" ( p. 238 ) Mary Baker Eddy has written: "Let one's life answer well these questions, and it already hath a benediction: Have you renounced self? Are you faithful? Do you love?" One whose incentive in living is the expression of unselfed love can answer aright such queries and experience the satisfaction that comes from a career purified of erroneous self-interest.

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.