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WHEN Mary Baker Eddy discovered Christian Science and stated as one of its teachings, "In Christian Science there is no matter" ( Unity of Good, p. 41 ), this was greeted in general with scorn and derision.

During a visit to a museum of natural history a student of Christian Science became much interested in an exhibit of a square inch of river water which, when viewed through a glass, and magnified many times, displayed a veritable fairyland of beauty. Marvelous forms and shapes expressed symmetry, delicacy, balance, and grace.

There should be found no more responsible body of men and women in the world today than Christian Scientists, members of The Mother Church. An individual's responsibility may be regarded as his responsibility to God's demands.

The author points out the need for exchanging troubled thoughts for divine concepts.

" Mind is God," writes Mary Baker Eddy in "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" ( p. 469 ); and she adds, "We can have but one Mind, if that one is infinite.

Obadiah [is] the author of the fourth book of the Minor Prophets according to the arrangement in the Jewish canon, and the shortest book of the Old Testament. Concerning Obadiah nothing is known; it may even be that the name is a mere symbol, chosen on account of its meaning—"servant of Yahwe.

Obadiah means "Servant of God," and it is not an uncommon name in the Old Testament, though, as this list shows, it is, with the exception of Ahab's steward, a name which belongs to the later literature. But this is all we know about the author of the book.

" Among the earliest of the New England settlers, the Bakers and Ambroses were pioneer families of marked distinction, as the almost forgotten local histories of Massachusetts and New Hampshire attest in many ways" (The Ancestry of Mary Baker Eddy, by William Montgomery Clemens, Editor of Genealogy Magazine ). Mrs.

In "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy appears this profound statement ( pp. 109, 110 ): "The three great verities of Spirit, omnipotence, omnipresence, omniscience,—Spirit possessing all power, filling all space, constituting all Science,—contradict forever the belief that matter can be actual.

There may be found a remarkable, an arresting, statement on page 442 of Science and Health by Mary Baker Eddy, which reads as follows: "Christian Scientists, be a law to yourselves that mental malpractice cannot harm you either when asleep or when awake. " There may be some who do not see the importance of this behest, although, clothed in forceful language, it is to be looked upon as a terse and urgent command from a great Leader to her followers.