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In a letter dated April 26, 1900, concerning a portrait to be painted from photographs, Mary Baker Eddy wrote: "My thoughts form my face and its expressions; hence, these vary and no photographer has caught the expression of my best thoughts or the thought of my best expression.

A Little child is early taught that two times two makes four. Later he goes to school and through a process of memorizing and reasoning learns that certain numbers, when combined in certain ways, bring about correct answers to his arithmetical problems.

O House of Israel, are not my ways equal? are not your ways unequal?" Thus did the word of God, voiced by the prophet Ezekiel, indicate the great difference between the perfect justice established by divine law and imperfect human ways and means. The apparent unequal distribution of that which is deemed indispensable to human happiness, freedom, and comfort is cause for much distress to mankind today.

The world, seeking for happiness, has long considered love as one of its principal aids in the quest, although it is constantly finding its false sense of love crumbling into ashes. When this stage is reached, many people turn to God, in whom they have believed to a certain extent, and cry out vainly for His help to restore to them something which, because of its mistaken basis, never was more than an illusion.

Consecrated Christian Scientists should be awake to the claims of the pernicious argument which mortal mind calls fatalism, because of the persistence of the suggestion that fate and chance play an important part in the everyday life of human beings. The belief that God knows aught of evil, or that He permits His children to be affected by it, is early learned to be false in the study of Christian Science.

The cords of human sympathy have often been touched when loved ones who have read the Biblical promises and accounts of healing have petitioned their heavenly Father to restore them to health and usefulness, yet have continued to suffer, with no apparent answer to their prayers. Some sufferers, fearing that they may be asking amiss when they pray for health, add to their request, "If it be Thy will," believing that it may be a part of God's plan that they should suffer.

In 1901, in her Message to The Mother Church for that year, Mary Baker Eddy paid reverent and inspiring tribute to the spirituallyminded men under whose tutelage she had received her early religious training. "The lives of those old-fashioned leaders of religion," she wrote ( p.

Twice each year the Christian Science Quarterly contains a Lesson entitled "God the Only Cause and Creator. " Therein is always clearly set forth the eternal verity that God, good, being the only cause, evil is neither a cause nor an effect.

“My brethren, count it all joy when ye fall into divers temptations; knowing this, that the trying of your faith worketh patience. But let patience have her perfect work, that ye may be perfect and entire, wanting nothing.

Because of distressful occurrences which seemed rampant in the world about them, Jesus once spoke to his disciples these comforting words: "In the world ye shall have tribulation: but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world. " He did not deny the appearance of difficulties and disappointments, but the implication was that since he had overcome evil conditions sufficiently to rise above them, so could they.