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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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

A young girl , upon hearing her mother read from the Bible, "Therefore with joy shall ye draw water out of the wells of salvation," exclaimed, "Mother, that means joy is the dipper. " How true it is that only as one expresses joy and gratitude can he "draw water out of the wells of salvation"—liberate himself from the bondage and results of sin, sickness, disease, fear, lack, and limitation! Joy is not shallow optimism, crying, "Peace, peace; when there is no peace.

Those who fully recognize the value of the discovery of Christian Science cannot fail to see the equal importance of its founding. Both the discovery and the founding were achieved by Mary Baker Eddy, and through them, the healing ministrations of Truth are made possible today.

Few of us are engaged in undertakings that the world calls great. Our abilities may be required only in the most simple, everyday affairs; our niche in the human scheme is so inconspicuous that few consciously realize that we are filling it.

Does not the eagle, soaring serenely and fearlessly far above the earth, wonderfully typify a sense of hope, spiritual elevation, and inspiration? Does its flight not bring to us a better realization of the fact that man, the child of God, has dominion over all the earth? Christian Science reveals to each receptive heart the supremacy of Spirit, and the dominion of good. In "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" Mary Baker Eddy gives the illuminating statement ( p.

" For the love of God is broader Than is seen by human mind, And the heart of the Eternal Is most wonderfully kind. " The great need of the world today is that men should realize their oneness with God, our all-beneficent Father.