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One is justified in stating that the expansion of human knowledge has resulted in many advantages. Modern inventions, and the consequent ease of daily life in civilized countries, are the natural outcome of what we are accustomed to call education.

The application of Christian Science to human needs comes about through understanding and proving the government of God. Not by academic means, not by merely intellectual development, not in human modes, is Christian Science demonstrated; but through growing acquaintance with and love for the divine will.

The Master cried, "Come unto me. " Doubtless many have come to the true knowledge of God and man, home to the heaven of Soul, where perfection is always manifested.

The spiritual identity of each one of God's ideas is already established in divine Mind, but to become conscious of this identity and to express it involves to human sense a process of spiritual growth or unfoldment. Divine Science reveals that man is the reflection of God, infinite Mind or Principle, and that his spiritual identity is in Mind, not in matter.

When a man walks with God his voice, to borrow Emerson's exquisite phrase, becomes as the "rustle of the corn. " And a man's voice, be it added, is more or less an index to his thoughts, indeed to his entire being.

According to an early Christian writer who lived during the second century a. d.

Those who become students of Christian Science are familiar with the purpose for which our Church is founded. Our revered Leader, Mary Baker Eddy, who is the revelator of Christian Science and consequently knows more about the subject than anyone else, says in the "Historical Sketch" of the Church Manual (p.

How comforting to students of Christian Science is the Bible story of the one who had been lame for over forty years, and who was laid daily at the Beautiful gate of the temple. The narrative, found in the book of Acts, tells us of an instantaneous healing received by a man long in bondage to helplessness, which enabled him not only to walk but to leap with joy and praise God.

On page 3 of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" Mrs. Eddy asks and answers a question regarding gratitude thus: "Are we really grateful for the good already received? Then we shall avail ourselves of the blessings we have, and thus be fitted to receive more.

An old adage reads, "If a thing is worth doing, it is worth doing well," meaning that anything not worthy of wholehearted effort scarcely deserves to be undertaken. It also means that every activity engaged in should be carried out, not carelessly, but with the fullest ability of the person who is responsible for it, thus ensuring the "perfect work," which means patient effort.