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True self-consciousness is consciousness of the real self, which is known to God, but not to mortals, and is desirable. The self-consciousness which is a deterrent to human advancement, and which seemingly hampers some whose duties bring them before the public, and also many in private life, is the belief in a counterfeit, reversed sense of a self totally unknown to God.

Throughout the Scriptural record of humanity's spiritual progress there runs the golden thread of evidence of Deity's omnipresence, of God's nearness to man. Some thirty-three hundred years before the beginning of the Christian era, over five thousand years before the discovery of Christian Science, there was, as the Bible records, a man whose long life is described in the brief but graphic statement that he "walked with God: and he was not; for God took him.

This loving invitation to mental activity is given in Isaiah: "Come now, and let us reason together, saith the Lord: though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool. " Examining human thought-processes, we find that we are continually reasoning, either with ourselves or with others.

To all who would advance the Cause of Christian Science, the textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy, has this arousing declaration ( p. 570 ): "Millions of unprejudiced minds—simple seekers for Truth, weary wanderers, athirst in the desert—are waiting and watching for rest and drink.

What a glorious blessing Mary Baker Eddy has brought to humanity in her revelation of the ever-present, incorporeal Christ! "Christ," she writes, "is the true idea voicing good, the divine message from God to men speaking to the human consciousness" (Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, p. 332 ).

Gratitude may be defined as the quality of thankfulness springing spontaneously from the heart for benefits received. It is the joyous recognition of God's goodness made manifest in our lives.

Through an understanding of the many beautiful attributes of Mind, God, as enumerated by Mary Baker Eddy in "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," a thoughtful student of Christian Science found great comfort in perceiving that the essence of every one of them was permanence. Referring to "the fleeting concepts of the human mind," on page 264 , Mrs.

A Famous Italian sculptor, Michelangelo, is reputed to have said, "Trifles make perfection, and perfection is no trifle. " On page 123 of "The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and Miscellany" Mary Baker Eddy, the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, has used this saying in the statement: "Seeing that we have to attain to the ministry of righteousness in all things, we must not overlook small things in goodness or in badness, for 'trifles make perfection,' and 'the little foxes.

When thinking from a material basis alone, mortals regard receiving as the coming into possession of something they did not have before. Also, they often regard giving as the conveying of something of their own without compensatory return, as though they were becoming separated from a substantial possession.

There is deep significance in the fact that in the Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy, the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, the initial chapter is a treatise on prayer; for however mistaken the thought may be, or however dim the vision, it is through prayer that men seek to know God. Too often, however, prayer has been regarded as a means or method by which some personal desire may be fulfilled or some event be brought to pass.