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Knowing God as our real Friend confers freedom from the belief that constant or frequent contact with personal friends is essential to our happiness. The abiding understanding of ever-present infinite Love includes all real friendship and relationship.

Christian science reveals the true idea of Church, in the words of Mary Baker Eddy, as "the structure of Truth and Love; whatever rests upon and proceeds from divine Principle" (Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, p. 583 ).

Righteous prayer is always answered, for it discerns that only good exists in the divine Mind; and it accepts this good as spiritual and real, and forever expressed by man and the universe. All the good that can be desired by human beings is now, always has been, and always will be in Mind, God; and, by reflection, it belongs to man.

The problem of demand and supply sometimes presents a dismal picture on this material stage of existence, and many view it with fear and foreboding. But just as a motion picture operator can change the picture on the screen by replacing an unsatisfactory film with a more excellent one, so an unfavorable economic outlook can be changed by the replacing of thoughts of fear with spiritual thoughts which reflect divine Mind.

A superficial consideration of Mrs. Eddy's statements may sometimes distort them into endorsements of easy-going standards of human conduct.

With the charm of Oriental imagery, in the eighth Psalm the poet of Israel lifts thought in praise to God, the creator of the universe and man. Impressed by the glory and sublimity of the heavens, with mounting thought he goes on to picture man.

No word falls more pleasantly upon human ears than the word "heaven. " The longing for heavenly harmony, although it may seldom be put into words, or even definitely acknowledged in thought, persists in every heart through all the changes and vicissitudes of the human scene.

In all her writings our Leader impresses upon us that the one thing needful, the one thing that is of vital importance for us all, is to gain the knowledge of God; and it is this knowledge which is the priceless gift of Christian Science to the world. Christian Science gives us certain synonyms for God which help us to understand better His infinite perfection, and "the marvellous unity of man with God," to quote from Mrs.

The conclusion that effect follows cause; that, as there can be no effect without a cause, there can be no cause without an effect, is universally accepted. The terms antecedent and consequent, noumenon and phenomenon, are but other phrases expressing the same sequential relationship.

The Codex of Ephraem, often designated by the letter "C," now rests in the National Library at Paris, though it may have come originally from Egypt. It is what is called a palimpsest, —a word which, by its derivation implies that which has been "wiped (or rubbed-out) again.