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" 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.

Membership with The Mother Church, The First Church of Christ, Scientist, in Boston, Massachusetts, and with one of its many branch churches located throughout the world, is a natural and desirable unfoldment in the progress of the student of Christian Science. However, by whatever road one may approach an active consideration of this momentous step, seeming difficulties in the way may induce arguments which would tempt one to delay temporarily, if not to postpone indefinitely, the achievement of the desired goal.

On page 111 of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" Mrs. Eddy writes, "The Principle of divine metaphysics is God; the practice of divine metaphysics is the utilization of the power of Truth over error; its rules demonstrate its Science.

When the children of Israel, on their journey out of Egypt, found themselves surrounded by seemingly insurmountable obstacles, the Red Sea before them and the pursuing Egyptians behind them, they cried out against Moses for having induced them to start on this journey to freedom. But Moses was not dismayed by these threatening material conditions, nor by the Israelites' belief in and fear of them.

FOR a long time after Christ Jesus began to teach the Christian religion, the early Christians had to confront a persistent opposition based on fictitious reasons. Now, their experience has been and is being repeated in the experience of Christian Scientists.

THE beginner in the study and application of Christian Science may be looking mainly for the changes in physical conditions and environment which seem to him desirable. His study of Christian Science and his effort to live its teachings will surely correct whatever is wrong, and Mrs.

OWING to the business and financial depression, there are today throughout the world many who are turning their thought toward the subject of restoration. Mortal mind claims to give men the power to create and accumulate great wealth, to place them in positions of importance, and then to destroy what has been amassed and reduce them to a state of impoverishment.

SO interwoven are the experiences of mankind, so interdependent, that each individual thought and act has its bearing, either to bless or to harm. Not one lives to himself alone.