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Christian Scientists are fortunate in having been given in the teachings of their Leader, Mary Baker Eddy, a standard of conduct, a standard of right thinking and living, that remains unaffected by the many phases of material belief encountered in the world today. Christian Scientists are encouraged by the following words on page vii of the Foreword in "The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and Miscellany," reprinted from The Christian Science Journal of May, 1906: "Deeds, not words, are the sound test of love; and the helpfulness of consistent and constant right thinking—intelligent thinking untainted by the emotionalism which is largely self-glorification is a reasonable service which all Christian Scientists can render their Leader.

" O come , let us worship and bow down: let us kneel before the Lord our maker. For he is our God; and we are the people of his pasture, and the sheep of his hand.

Fear often stems from a feeling of powerlessness. But Christian Science gives us the tools to conquer fear, beginning with the nature of God as omnipotent divine Love.

" The law was given by Moses, but grace and truth came by Jesus Christ," declared John. United in having the same source of inspiration, both the Decalogue and the gospel of our Master are revelations of divine law.

In the Manual of The Mother Church in Article XX, which governs all Christian Science Sunday Schools, our beloved Leader has put forward a wonderful concept of spiritual education. This can be utilized not only in the Sunday school, but also in the home, for the purpose of giving to our children the Christian and scientific knowledge of God and His laws, which will enable them to demonstrate their God-given dominion.

Christian Science teaches, and its practice proves, that God is not a person in the ordinarily accepted sense of the word, but is divine Principle, absolute and everlasting, and that the action of Principle is expressed in perpetual, infallible law. The operation of this law is never affected by time, place, or circumstance, or by anything that may be said or done by any human being.

" Come now! Do you not understand, have you not heard, that the Eternal is an everlasting God,  the maker of the world from end to end? He never faints, never is weary, his insight is unsearchable. " The plan of changeless and immortal Mind must be unalterable and forever unfolded.

Zephaniah's message is essentially one of judgment. Judah and, in particular, Jerusalem have sinned; and Jehovah's judgment upon them is at hand.

The burden of the book is "the day of the Lord," the judgment of God upon the whole earth. The day of the Lord is a day of darkness and supernatural terrors, but also a day of the trumpet and alarm against the fenced cities.

One of the most helpful among the early Christian Scientists was Miss Julia S. Bartlett.