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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.

It is the glorious privilege of every student in Christian Science, whether he is just beginning to study or is more experienced in the study of divine Truth, to bear witness joyously and gratefully to the omnipotence of God and to man's reflected dominion. The humble acknowledgment of the all-power of infinite Love brings to consciousness the positive conviction that there is, and can be, no power separate from God.

In spite of the seeming din and clamor attendant upon a false, material sense of living, the "still small voice" of Truth is ever speaking to all who will listen. That this voice is being heard is indicated by an increasing recognition of the fact that the perfect and permanent salvation of mankind can come only through a demonstrable understanding of the spiritual nature of the real man and the real universe.