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During the eighth century b. c.

IN his inspiring letter to the Galatians, in referring to their "adoption of sons," Paul said, "And because ye are sons, God hath sent forth the Spirit of his Son into your hearts, crying, Abba, Father. " At that time the Galatian converts to Christianity were being subjected to certain influences designed to turn them from the stirring and inspired teaching of the apostle.

Mary Baker Eddy gives mankind a spiritual rule for right progress when she says in "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" ( p. 6 ), "The talents He gives we must improve;" and ( p.

Everyone desires to attain true satisfaction; and did not the Psalmist point the way when he said, "I shall be satisfied, when I awake, with thy likeness"? The progressive unfoldment of spiritual understanding brings increasing satisfaction, because it reveals the true spiritual selfhood, which cannot know dissatisfaction. Discord and suffering have no abiding place in Truth, and seem to exist only to so-called mortal consciousness or a false sense of self; and when this is laid off by the recognition of the real man, the only place where error could claim to exist has been destroyed.

The words of God to Moses, "I am the Lord: and I appeared unto Abraham, unto Isaac, and unto Jacob, by the name of God Almighty," show that early in the history of religion all power was revealed as belonging to God. It is likewise true that besides the term "Almighty" as a name for Deity, the Bible refers to God as infinite.

" The Christian Scientist has enlisted to lessen evil, disease, and death; and he will overcome them by understanding their nothingness and the allness of God, or good," writes Mrs. Eddy on page 450 of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures.

Of the ten lepers who were cleansed, only one returned to give thanks. Surely, the other nine must have been grateful for the healing of that dread disease, though they neglected to give glory to God or to express their gratitude to Jesus.

How reassuring is Mrs. Eddy's promise that refuge and protection are to be found in the understanding of Spirit! She tells us that this is where we must find our help, for she has written ( Miscellaneous Writings, p.

Referring to her reliance upon spiritual guidance, Mary Baker Eddy, the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, states ( Miscellaneous Writings, p. 347 ): "The guardians of His presence go before me.

To borrow the form of Pilate's well-known question about truth and ask, "What is peace?" would probably elicit a reply indicating that peace is regarded as the absence of war. Yet that is no more pertinent than it would be to say that light is the absence of darkness, or good the absence of evil.