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Exploring in depth what Christian Science is and how it heals.

THE BUSINESS OF LIFE

CHRISTIAN SCIENCE teaches that absolute facts are eternal realities, and may be recognized as the solution for the problems of daily life. Mrs.

THE REFORMING OF HABITS

INASMUCH as many people need help towards reformation, it were well that attention be given by each of us to reforming his own habits. We should strive to walk in the right way till it becomes habitual.

PROVING CHRISTIAN SCIENCE

For nearly three quarters of a century Christian Science has been giving to the world such convincing proof of its authenticity that, generally speaking, it now is being accepted in a more appreciable degree than formerly. Its true acceptance and proof, however, begin with individual demonstration, wherein the evidence accumulates to show that it is based upon the unalterable law of God.

MODERN VERSIONS OF THE BIBLE

As distinct from the Revised Version and the American Standard Version of the Bible, which are admittedly revisions of the familiar Authorized Version, there have since appeared several translations whose background is somewhat different. Those who prepared them make no particular effort to adhere to the phraseology of the King James rendering, or to revise it.

DOING THOROUGH MENTAL WORK

Balak , king of the Moabites, was uneasy about the Israelites who had lately come out of Egypt, and were encamping on the plains of Moab. Twice he had sent for Balaam of Pethor to come and curse this vast array of people, so that he might drive them out of the land.

"STAND UPRIGHT ON THY FEET"

St. Paul , beholding in the streets of Lystra the impotent man who had been a cripple from his birth, and "perceiving that he had faith to be healed," addressed him with the startling command, "Stand upright on thy feet.

DOORS AND GATES

Usually , a building or a property is entered through a door or gateway. Formerly towns were protected by walls and towers, the only entrance being through strongly fortified gates.

"NO EBB AND FLOW"

In her poem, "Come Thou," Mary Baker Eddy, the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, has written ( Poems, p. 36 ): " 'The seasons come and go: Love, like the sea, Rolls on with thee,— But knows no ebb and flow.

MEETING ALL HUMAN NEEDS

Down through the years mortals have manifested many wants and many needs. They have striven for the gratification of their desires, usually through material means— sometimes through blind reaching out for the spiritual.

SPIRITUAL MIGHT

That all might belongs to God is the theme of many of the Psalms. The Psalmist, having risen to a clear realization of the might and majesty of divine Mind, declared, in the first verse of the twenty-seventh Psalm, "The Lord is my light and my salvation; whom shall I fear? the Lord is the strength of my life; of whom shall I be afraid?" All healing in Christian Science tends to increase spiritual might and thereby expel fear.