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If one who for many years has been a student of Christian Science should manifest what the medical faculty terms incurable disease, the question would naturally arise, How is one to go about healing it? Is it not more spiritual light that is needed? Then it is well to remain confident that the enlightenment will come, and continue to study and to listen for the voice of Truth. A student of Christian Science was seeking a solution to such a problem, and one day these words came to her so clearly that she could not mistake their import: Silence the belief in material law! This sentence made clear to the student where the difficulty lay.

" It is a fact!" These words sometimes suggest a relentless finality. Too often, in human experience, they imply something evil from the effects of which there would seem to be no escape—no hope of recovery.

Throughout the textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," and her other writings, Mary Baker Eddy gives students definite rules to be applied in the healing of sin and disease. One such rule, on page 11 of "Rudimental Divine Science," reads thus: "The lecturer, teacher, or healer who is indeed a Christian Scientist, never introduces the subject of human anatomy; never depicts the muscular, vascular, or nervous operations of the human frame.

Mary Baker Eddy , the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, included among the ByLaws in the Manual of The First Church of Christ, Scientist, some simple provisions pertaining to church membership. These requirements provide a sheltering defense for students of this Science of Christianity who are qualified to assume the responsibilities of membership.

Man , created by God, divine Mind, is obedient to His law, and abides within the realm of God's perfect government. According to the first chapter of the Gospel of John, "All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made.

In a well-known painting of Daniel in the lions' den, known as "Daniel's Answer to the King," this true, courageous soldier of God is shown standing near the opening of the den. It is interesting to note that Daniel is pictured, not as looking at the lions, or terrified at their presence, but as standing erect, fearless, his face toward the light, looking upward, confidently awaiting his release.

" If thou strayest, listen for the mountain-horn, and it will call thee back to the path that goeth upward" ( Miscellaneous Writings, by Mary Baker Eddy, p. 328 ).

None other of the early interpreters of Jesus' teachings more vigorously or more successfully set forth the innermost meanings of the Master's sayings than did the Apostle to the Gentiles. In his letter to the Philippians, Paul clearly states his attitude toward Christianity, his unshakable faith in its message, and his determination to follow its behests whatever might befall.

THE widespread popularity attained by the Genevan Version or "Breeches Bible," published in its complete form in 1560, was a cause of deep satisfaction to the followers of John Knox and to many of the more liberal-minded members of the Church of England. On the other hand, there was a considerable group of Anglicans who, while admitting that the Genevan Version was more accurate than the Great Bible, looked askance at it as too Calvinistic in tone.

IN considering individual development in the understanding and demonstration of Christian Science, much enlightenment may be gained through the study of the experiences of Moses as related in the third and fourth chapters of the book of Exodus. Moses had been forced to flee from Egypt because, in his indignation and sorrow on beholding the afflictions and injustices perpetrated upon his people, he had killed an Egyptian.