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Christian Scientists, as many before them, have enjoyed gleaning the helpful lessons which are to be found in the story of Jacob and Esau. It has been the common view that Jacob was the more worthy of the two brothers because of his readier appreciation of the value of the birthright; and Esau's dullness on this point has attached to his name a condemnation as of a permanent unworthiness.

Mrs. Eddy has said very definitely in "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" ( p.

In "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" Mary Baker Eddy writes ( p. 202 ), "The scientific unity which exists between God and man must be wrought out in life-practice, and God's will must be universally done.

There are three fields of experience in which mortals are interested—the past, the present, and the future. The first cannot be made over; the second is in the making; and the third is glorious with possibilities.

The language of the New Testament long constituted a perplexing problem to the Biblical scholar, for while the earliest extant manuscripts were undoubtedly written in Greek, it was equally obvious that this Greek could not be said to conform strictly to classical standards. Those who had been trained to study and use the highly polished phrases and elaborate construction favored by such classic authors as Euripides or Plato, were at a loss to account for a certain bluntness of expression, a homeliness and seeming irregularity of form and of sentence structure characteristic of all, or of nearly all, of the New Testament writers; and, for a time, it became the custom to condemn the style, grammar, and vocabulary of the apostles and evangelists, or, at best, to make excuses for them.

In the Christian Science Sentinel of May 11, 1929, there was a brief account reprinted from a Milwaukee paper which stated that an American teacher had been employed in Japan on condition that he would not mention Christianity in his lectures. He was strictly obedient to this command, but the students were so deeply impressed by his Christian life that a number of them renounced their religion and became ministers of the gospel.

All will agree that Truth dissolves and dispels error. The suggestion that some phase of human disorder, some disease, acute or chronic, is developing or is beyond control is a false claim without a degree of truth to sustain it.

When Moses inquired as to the identity of the one who spoke from the burning bush, God said: "I AM THAT I AM: .

Many centuries ago a great Teacher, sitting on a hillside, preached a Sermon which is now known in almost every land. This Sermon on the Mount may in part be used and quoted by some who are not even aware of the origin of the wise words.

The Christian Science church was organized as a Mind-healing church, and the life and substance of this church is truly the spiritual understanding demonstrated individually by its members in healing the sick, the troubled, the sinning. The individual and collective light of this understanding constitutes the appeal of each branch church to its community.