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Some years ago, a student of Christian Science took her books into a quiet garden, expecting to spend a long afternoon in study. After she had read for some time, a smiling, snowily-clad nurse and two fair-haired children came and occupied a seat near her.

With the assurance born of divine authority, the loving Jesus said, "Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you. " Before uttering these memorable words, the Master had tested their truth in his own experience.

In a letter to a branch church on the occasion of its dedication, Mrs. Eddy wrote, "The praiseworthy success of this church, and its united efforts to build an edifice in which to worship the infinite, sprang from the temples erected first in the hearts of its members—the unselfed love that builds without hands, eternal in the heaven of Spirit" ( The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and Miscellany, p.

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.