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Our Leader once said to pupils who were considering the advisability of erecting a church building, "Let there first be a Church of Christ in reality —and in the hearts of men before one is organized" (Mary Baker Eddy: A Life Size Portrait, by Dr. Powell).

According to Christian Science  the real man, spoken of in the first chapter of Genesis as created in the image and likeness of God, is coexistent with and inseparable from God. Christ Jesus alone completely exemplified this perfect man.

In one of his wonderful sermons Jesus pointed out to the people who flocked to hear him, the price that they must pay if they intended to do more than passively listen to his words. He said: "Which of you, intending to build a tower, sitteth not down first, and counteth the cost, whether he have sufficient to finish it?

Almost without exception men continually search for something they do not seem to have—health, success, liberty, peace, or supply. Some anxiously turn from one hope to another, and how often they labor in vain, because through lack of spiritual understanding their desires are selfish and inferior, and they do not travel the way Truth points out.

" God pours the riches of His love into the understanding and affections, giving us strength according to our day" (Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy, p. 5 ).

Spiritual awareness, or an awareness or consciousness of the things of Spirit, is the goal of every sincere seeker after Truth. It brings heaven, bliss, harmony into human experience in its glorious adventure from sense to Soul.

How often has one felt on looking back, ruefully perhaps, over a day that has seemed to bristle with small difficulties and petty disappointments, If only I had exercised more patience! As one by one the experiences of such a day are reviewed, it is often seen that the unkind criticism had been uncalled for, the quick frown unnecessary, the hasty retort futile. Nothing worth while was accomplished by that sudden outburst of irritability.

In a world torn by conflicting theories of government, when the cruel doctrine of force is loudly proclaimed as the only practical method of maintaining peace, it is truly refreshing to find in Christian Science an ideal platform upon which all who sincerely desire to live at peace with mankind can stand together. The platform of Christian Science, which is set out between pages 330 and 340 of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy, derives its authority from the Bible and constitutes the working basis of true metaphysical practice.

From birth mankind is in a constant state of either apparently progressing according to so-called material laws or suffering from violating them. The child develops to maturity and then declines, according to these laws.

The Bible emphatically affirms that God is good and omnipotent. It also reveals that He is Mind.