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Through the study of Christian Science, the Science of infinite good, many are being liberated from the bonds of fear, and are enjoying God's infinite, ever-present goodness. How often are decisions made difficult, and how often are right motives restrained, by fear! How often men are deprived of the better things of life—protection, success, health, happiness, and plenty—because of fear! How often, too, things perhaps long feared never occur! Having learned that fear—lack of true courage—is a perplexing handicap, and learning also that one who reflects God is capable of mastering whatever is not good, who would not rightly resist fear? For scientifically to resist fear and master it adds to the success of right business transactions and ventures, dissolves discord and disease, and replaces poverty with plenty.

As Christian Scientists, we are valuable to our church to the extent that we humbly and sincerely strive to overcome a false sense of self, purify consciousness, and exercise spiritual love. Every Christian Science church should be as a rainbow to the community, a bow of promise spanning the dark clouds of materialism.

It is recorded in Luke's Gospel that besides his twelve disciples, Christ Jesus appointed seventy others to preach the gospel of the kingdom of God, and specifically instructed them to heal the sick. It is also stated that they returned with joy, saying, "Lord, even the devils are subject unto us through thy name.

The Science of Christianity would be of little use if its adherents could not stand the test which the dawn of Truth inevitably brings to the human consciousness. The more quickly the student is ascending above the dream of life in matter the more numerous may be his tests.

To the man who called him "Good Master" Jesus said, "There is none good but one, that is, God;" and the Bible also states that "God is no respecter of persons. " These truths, that God alone is good and the source of all good, and that He provides an infinitude of good for all His ideas, are essential in the practice of Christian Science.

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 ).