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Every Christian Scientist is a practitioner, if he is a Christian Scientist at all, for the word "practitioner" means primarily one who practices what he knows. But can we be Christian Scientists in name only? What would be thought of such statements as these: "I am an artist, but I never paint a picture.

Just before Christ Jesus gave that incomparable prayer which we call the Lord's Prayer, he said, "When ye pray, use not vain repetitions,.

Christian Science is turning humanity from the false concept of God as a magnified human personality to the true understanding of Him as divine Principle. This correct concept of Deity is transforming the worship of countless individuals, and is revealing the way whereby Christianity becomes a living and practical Science.

Man lives and has his being at the standpoint of reflection. Man is the embodiment of God's ideas, governed by God's law, forever active in expressing that which is good.

" God requires wisdom, economy, and brotherly love to characterize all the proceedings of the members of The Mother Church, The First Church of Christ, Scientist. " Thus wrote Mary Baker Eddy, the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, in the Manual of The Mother Church ( Art.

In the age-old struggle against physical, financial, and economic difficulties, humanity has oftentimes overlooked the one unfailing remedy for all of these ills, which has always been right at hand and instantly available. More than nineteen centuries ago this positive, unerring, and changeless rule, by which every phase of human discord may be corrected, was revealed to the world by the Galilean Prophet, Jesus of Nazareth.

In a time when we are supposed to be living in a weary, sinful world, a world where much is wrong, it is heartening to remember the promise of God to Noah after the abating of the waters, "I do set my bow in the cloud, and .

An essential of real and lasting government is that it functions with the consent of the governed. Mary Baker Eddy has written ( The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and Miscellany, p.

How much we need patience and perseverance in order to make our demonstrations in Christian Science, thus overcoming material sense and progressing heavenward! The word "patient" is defined in part as "expectant with calmness and without discontent. " What are we expecting? Good or evil? The expectation of good brings calmness and contentment; and only by learning to trust God as all-powerful does one learn to expect and accept good alone.

Three simple, God-loving men, we are told in the Scriptures, refused to compromise with certain orders of the king of the land. At the sound of much noise and music the princes, governors, counselors, judges, and all the people were commanded to fall down and worship an image of gold—to pay homage to materialism.